The server is not responding (or the local MySQL server's socket is not correctly configured) in wamp server

Question

I am currently getting this error in my phpmyadmin:

2002 - The server is not responding (or the local MySQL server's socket is not correctly configured)

I tried googling and give each solutions i found a try. Unfortunately, nothing worked for me.

By the way, I am using wamp server.

Below is my configuration file of config.inc.php from C:\wamp\apps\phpmyadmin3.2.0.1.

<?php

/* Servers configuration */
$i = 0;

/* Server: localhost [1] */
$i++;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['verbose'] = 'localhost';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'localhost';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['port'] = '';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['socket'] = '/tmp/mysql.sock';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type'] = 'tcp';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension'] = 'mysqli';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = '';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] = true;

/* End of servers configuration */

$cfg['DefaultLang'] = 'en-utf-8';
$cfg['ServerDefault'] = 1;
$cfg['UploadDir'] = '';
$cfg['SaveDir'] = '';

?>

Answer 1

There are possible solutions here: http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?35,64808,254785#msg-254785 and here: http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?35,23138,254786#msg-254786

All of these are config settings. In my case I have two computers with everything in XAMPP synced. On the other computer phpMyAdmin did start normally. So the problem in my case seemed to be with the specific computer, not the config files. Stopping firewall didn't help.

Finally, more or less by accident, I bumped into the file:

...path_to_XAMPP\XAMPP...\mysql\bin\mysqld-debug.exe

Doubleclicking that file miraculously gave me back PhpMyAdmin. Posted here in case anyone might be helped by this too.

Answer 2

I face the same problem and changing

 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'localhost';

to

 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = '127.0.0.1';

Solved this issue.