When PHPMyAdmin is launched from MAMP Pro’s Launch PHPMyAdmin button, which uses this URL
http://localhost:8888/MAMP/frame.php?src=/phpMyAdmin/?lang=en-iso-8859-1&language=English

…or from its browser menu selection
http://localhost:8888/MAMP/frame.php?src=%2FphpMyAdmin%2F%3Flang%3Den-iso-8859-1&language=English

In each case I get the error:
Error: MySQL said: #2002 – The server is not responding (or the local MySQL server’s socket is not correctly configured)

But when I click Start on the browser window’s menu link,
http://localhost:8888/MAMP/index.php?language=English

the Webstart’s Welcome to MAMP window comes up and says everything is working, and I can access MySQL when PHPMyAdmin is launched from the link further down the page:
http://localhost:8888/MAMP/frame.php?src=%2FphpMyAdmin%2F which is
http://localhost:8888/MAMP/frame.php?src=/phpMyAdmin/ (without the html entities)

…then it opens MySQL without a problem. (Navicat can also login to MySQL and all the DBs inc Drupal with no problem)

So maybe its a problem to do with the “lang=en-iso-8859-1″ addition? I now recall that I’ve had this problem before, but never resolved the cause.

When I look into MAMP Pro’s File/Edit Template/PHP5 php.ini option for editing php.ini, there is a section which reads:

; PHP’s built-in default is text/html
default_mimetype = “text/html”
;default_charset = “iso-8859-1″

Should I uncomment the iso-8859-1 option?

So you can probably ignore my comments now.

Any ideas?

I had installed xampp previously so could that be affecting it? I’ve removed the xampp installation by doing rm -rf /Applications/xampp, is there anything else I need to do?

I’ve also checked the web sharing and that’s turned off.

I installed MAMP using my OSX Leopard. Added the Directives above and OK went well.

First, I backed up my mysql db

While I tried to restore my mysql, I tried to use the mysql Administrator, however, seems it does not recognize the username/ password the MAMP has setup root, root.
Its giving me an error can not connect rhru socket ‘/tmp/mysql.sock’(2) (code 202)
However, using phpmyadim, from MAMP, there is no problem.

Am I using a completely separate Apache, PHP and Mysql? I hope so. or, is it still pointing to the original one I installed previously prior to MAMP. I did not make any changes to the php.ini. There was nothing that says I have to.

So, I went to phpmyadmin and tried to change the password fo rmysql. Now, after I changed it, I can not get in at all, from phpmyadmin or mysql admin.

help..[;s/

You may very well be right about the ease of using a standard account. And I agree about the fact that MAMP is not the best solution. It is, however, a good stop-gap until Marc Lyneage’s PHP package is updated and we can run PHP naturally on Leopard with a broad set of lib support.

I think many developer types do just fine with a standard account and actually prefer using the standard account (we tend to best practices seriously.)

I’ve been using XAMPP for web development and using a standard account was never an issue. Using a standard account for Xcode isn’t a problem either so I’m not sure your statement holds water.

Not being able to run using a standard account really is a shortcoming of MAMP Pro that needs to be addressed. Particularly when MAMP Pro is pay-for software. That’s not to say I don’t like MAMP Pro or that I don’t think it’s nicer than XAMPP but requiring an admin account to run is kinda bush league.