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Forum dedicated to those that are learning Drupal 4.x.x using David Mercer's Drupal Book: "Creating Blogs, Forums, Portals, and Community Websites". Since the book is intended to respond to a series of environments, I believe a forum has to be developed for the book within the Drupal site itself.

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marce commented

Hello folks,

I am trying to follow the book as close as I can. This is my second attempt and I have encountered the first obstacle for the second time as well. This consists of the following:
1. I am using Windows XP Pro, version 5.1, Service Pack 2.
2. I have installed Apache2Triad 1.5.4 and although my first installation went badly (I couldn't go beyond MySQL password problem), my second seems to have gone OK, but I still have the same password problem.

Although I get both screenshots on Mercer's book, page 36, when I click on phpmyadmin I get a dialog ox for login (root) and password (*********) [the ones I set at the beginning when installing Apache2Triad but I cannot get in, and I am unable to advance any further with the book.

I have also tried the following:

c:\ mysqladmin -u root -p create drupal

I provide the password I set while installing Apache2Triad(A2T), but get the same response: my password is not recognized. So, I strongly believe the password I set while installing A2T is not being recognized.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

maqex
maqex

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mdixoncm commented

Try just using a blank password to get you in (I think as a default the root account has a blank password), and then changing the password after.

If your running stuff from the command line I think you will have to use mysql -u root (instead of mysqladmin -u root), but that could be something specific to your installation.

It could also be that mysql is installed but isn't actually running on your machine?

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marce commented

Thanks mdixoncm!

Good site for books, I've tagged it in my.deli.cio.us.

My problem is fixed, following your suggestion. I entered a blank password and then changed it with the following command on the windows shell:

set password = password("yournewpassword");

with the new password, I followed the instructions described on page 39 of Mercer's book. So far, so good.

Cheers and happy 2007!

maqex