From the course: Installing Apache, MySQL, and PHP
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Reset MySQL root admin password
From the course: Installing Apache, MySQL, and PHP
Reset MySQL root admin password
- [Instructor] One of the most common administrative tasks you might need to do when you're working on a local EMP installation is to change the root user password from MySQL. The process for this is exactly the same, regardless of what operating system you're working on. I'm going to demonstrate this though on Windows with WampServer. And that's because WampServer by default, installs MySQL with a blank password for the root user. And that's just not usually a good practice, even on the local installation. So, first I'll show you how easy it is to get into MySQL on a fresh installation of WampServer and then how to change that password. I already have WampServer installed and I'll go to the menu and choose phpMyAdmin. That the web-based interface for managing your databases. I'll choose MySQL as my server choice and then I won't enter a password for the user root and I'll just click Go. And I can get right into the…
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