Comments on: MySQL Change root Password

By: sphiwe

sphiwe — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:27:34 +0000

hi all.
iam usin wamp 2.0 with mysql 5.1.36.

i hv 2 tables, subjects and pages, pages relates to subjects vai subject_id. iam buildin a site, wen i try 2 retrieve pages 4rm my data base dat hv a relationship with a subject(…$query = select * FROM pages WHERE subject_id = {$subject_id}…) it gvs me an error dt reads: you hav an error in ur sql syntax; check manual that corresponds to your mysql server version. somebody please help me, thanx.

By: pictuality

pictuality — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:36:15 +0000

Hi Vinod,

Hope you can help.

You say that to set a password (in WAMP when one hasn’t been set) to:

To setup root password for first time:
mysqladmin -u root password “NEWPASSWORD”
C:\wamp\bin\mysql\mysql5.1.30\bin> mysqladmin -u root password “root”

I don’t understand, – which one is it?

Do I use your first line and enter my chosen password where you have “NEWPASWORD”
or do I use your second line and enter “root” ?

If I use your second line and enter “root”, do I then get to set the password I want?

Why do you give two conflicting lines? Sorry, all new to me.

I also found out from another site that you have to navigate from command prompt to the bin directory that contains the mysqladmin.exe file before trying to run the command. That isn’t very clear here.

By: pictuality

pictuality — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:42:36 +0000

Hi all,

Am using WAMP – with MySql 5.1.36.

Currently have no password set for root. Open to all. None of the above solutions work for me. Does anyone know how to set root password – WAMP Mysql 3.1.36 ? Please don’t suggest any of the above!

Thanks

By: nicoliniyo

nicoliniyo — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:09:12 +0000

This is really usefull!

By: Srikanth

Srikanth — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 06:57:47 +0000

Thanks a Lot :)

By: john black

john black — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:17:07 +0000

Hello edi,
I see that you are having problems too.
Welcome to the club.
“Your PHP MySQL library version 5.0.51a differs from your MySQL server version 5.1.32. This may cause unpredictable behavior.”
I have never used wamp precisely because of this sort of problem.
If all goes well wamp is a very easy way to install Apache, PHP and MySql.
But when something goes wrong as in your case it is very difficult to fix.
I think that your error message means exactly that.
Had you installed the three packages separately it would have been less trouble.
Before you uninstall wamp and install Apache, PHP and MySql separately,
I would try uninstalling MySql, uninstalling PHP and then installing PHP and then MySql.
You do need to download PHP and MySql separately.
But having said that you might be better off starting again
with a fresh install of Apache, PHP and MySql.
Each is dependent on the previous installation thus Apache can run on its own.
PHP depends on Apache. MySql depends on PHP.
You must work up to the full installation, uninstalling a part if it does not work.
Just to add a layer of complication, for some reason PHP no longer supports MySql
without a few extras. Some dispute between Sun Microsystems who support MySql
and PHP which is open source.
Your C:\PHP\ext folder needs to include a few extra dll files
which need to be enabled in your php.ini.
I could say more but it is well documented on the internet.
Yes it is a challenge. Good luck. It will work eventually.

By: edi

edi — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 10:10:22 +0000

hello i am just use wamp but when i open phpmyadmin , i found this alert ,
“Your PHP MySQL library version 5.0.51a differs from your MySQL server version 5.1.32. This may cause unpredictable behavior.”

can anybody help me to fix this ?

By: Ste ve

Ste ve — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:20:54 +0000

This just doesn’t work. I have version 5.0.84 on a windows server.
It doesn’t work without quotes, with quotes, double quotes or brackets…

I’ve never set a pasword, so I just try
$ mysqladmin -u root password NEWPASSWORD

And it doesn’t work. Please help.

By: jason

jason — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:20:57 +0000

5.1.37
mysqladmin -u root -p”oldpass” password”newpass”

replace oldpass with your old password. replace newpass with your new password. leave the quotation marks “”.

thanks again for this post , esp thundergod.

By: yudymardianto

yudymardianto — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:09:24 +0000

very Useful this article.
thanks.