Help on phpmyadmin in xammp

[arundracula]

I installed xammp-1.5.5a-i586-4vl58.tlz in VectorLinux 6.0 STD

All went good, but when I go to the page http://localhost/phpmyadmin/ this error is shown.

#2002 - The server is not responding (or the local MySQL server's socket is not correctly configured)

How can this be corrected?

Please help.

[newt]

Can you confirm that the servers are up and running? I would expect that you would need apache, mysql, and php running correctly for phpmyadmin to function properly. Probably checking the running processes would suffice (ps ax).

[arundracula]

root:# /opt/lampp/lampp start
Starting XAMPP for Linux 1.5.5a...
XAMPP: Starting Apache with SSL (and PHP5)...
XAMPP: Starting MySQL...
XAMPP: Starting ProFTPD...
XAMPP for Linux started.

root:# /opt/lampp/lampp status
Version: XAMPP for Linux 1.5.5a
Apache is running.
MySQL is not running.
ProFTPD is running.

I also tried /opt/lampp/lampp startmysql

It says started but not running. 

[newt]

I should have noticed before, but it looks like you installed a package for VL 5.8 which is pretty dated at this point. I would recommend you uninstall that version of xammp (as root, removepkg xammp-1.5.5a-i586-4vl58.tlz). Once you have it uninstalled you can proceed with installing a current version of xammp:

Download: http://www.apachefriends.org/download.php?xampp-linux-1.7.2.tar.gz
Unpackage it: (as root) tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.7.2.tar.gz -C /opt
Start xammp: (as root) /opt/lampp/lampp start

Then give it a test in your browser (http://localhost).

Hope this helps

[arundracula]

Ok, thankyou. I'll check it.