Step 1 MySQL Username Password Incorrect

comptechexpress · 24.07.2006, 07:22

I have installed MySQL 5... and PHP 4... and mysqladmin I am now trying to install joomla 1.0.10. I enter in the information it is asking for. localhost, root, password, mysqldatabase. When I click on next it then tells me that the username and password are incorrect.

Does anyone know what is going wrong?

Halichopter · 25.03.2007, 18:42

Same with me. When I installed MySQL via XAAMP it asked for a user name and password. Joomla also does in the setup 'step 1'. However using 'root' and leaving pw empty does not work nor does using the name and password I setup upon installation. I changed the .ini file to have a blank for both (deleted name and password) and this doesn't work either.

This has been an extraordinarily hard process and this is just the latest frustration.

Halichopter · 25.03.2007, 23:04

Ok, apparently this site doesn't get used much because the poor sap that created this thread has had 1600 views in one year since he posted and NO replies.

Anyway I figured it out. When I first installed XAAMP when I was trying to get everything to run I was asked to create a MySQL name and password. When I ran the Joomla installer it also asks for a name and password and even though I used the right one it would't accept it.

I had to uninstall EVERYTHING (BTW the XAAMP installer doesn't do the trick you have to uninstall Filezilla and MySQL manually) so after an hour or so I was able to reinstall everything and it worked.