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Alexandra Cianciara
2,465 PointsMamp won't start the servers
I installed the mamp, created the website in wordpresss, shut down my pc and now mamp wont start.
There is some issue with SQL, it says on the mamp admin this: MySQL said: Documentation
Cannot connect: invalid settings. mysqli_real_connect(): (HY000/2002): No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. phpMyAdmin tried to connect to the MySQL server, and the server rejected the connection. You should check the host, username and password in your configuration and make sure that they correspond to the information given by the administrator of the MySQL server.
Please help. Thank you
3 Answers
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 PointsI don't use MAMP, myself but on my XAMPP local server, there's a setting to switch on SQL services as well as Apache. That's what opens access to phpMyAdmin. Maybe you need to switch on a setting like that for it to work.
Alexandra Cianciara
2,465 PointsThe issue is where I go from MAMP application and go to WebStart page: http://localhost/MAMP/?language=English
The page is being blocked and it says to check connection and proxy and firewall settings. The site cannot be reached.
Because of this I cannot even go to Mamp Admin settings.
Please could someone help me.
Danny Boisvert
4,576 PointsHi Alexandra, maybe the answer I provided on this post might help you: https://teamtreehouse.com/community/mysql-server-light-is-not-lit-up-its-not-on
Alexandra Cianciara
2,465 PointsAlexandra Cianciara
2,465 PointsThank you Jonathan Grieve . Where do you do this?
I read several sources and followed this route: C:\MAMP\bin\phpMyAdmin and opened config.inc in Brackets and in the following code I had:
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] = false;
and changed it to:
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] = true;
But it's not working at all.
/* Authentication type / $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config'; / Server parameters / $cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'localhost'; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type'] = 'tcp'; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['compress'] = false; / Select mysql if your server does not have mysqli */ $cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension'] = 'mysqli'; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] = true; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['port'] = '3306'; // MySQL port $cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root'; // MySQL user $cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = 'root'; // MySQL password