Comments on: How To Install WordPress on Ubuntu: Part 1

By: Louise

Louise — Sun, 23 May 2010 15:56:15 +0000

Thanks Linerd!

It's all working now, ended up reinstalling phpmyadmin and clearing cache etc again as you suggested.

Thanks for the guides, they're really great, especially for newbies like me!

By: Linerd

Linerd — Sun, 23 May 2010 14:12:29 +0000

Just to be sure, you're trying to log in as root, correct?To reset the root password, try [term]sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh phpmyadmin[/term] The first screen should ask if you want to reinstall the database for phpmyadmin. Say "Yes". The next screen will ask you for a password for the administrative account (root). Enter the password you want, tab to OK and hit Enter. The next screen will ask about web server configuration. Make sure "apache2" is selected with a * (highlight and hit the space bar if it's not marked). Then OK.Then clear your browser cache and see if you can get in. If that doesn't work, I'm stumped.

By: Louise

Louise — Sun, 23 May 2010 10:19:54 +0000

Thanks Linerd, i tried this and the blue configuration screens come up etc but I'm not asked to change or set the password, tried clearing cache and restarting Apache anyway though but no luck.

By: Linerd

Linerd — Sat, 22 May 2010 22:44:00 +0000

Try clearing your browser cache. If that doesn't do it, then you may be able to reset your password with

sudo dpkg-reconfigure phpmyadmin

Restart mySQL with

sudo restart mysql

And then restart Apache with

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Finally, clear your browser cache again and give it another try.

By: Louise

Louise — Sat, 22 May 2010 21:59:46 +0000

I did this but phpmyadmin is not responding when I enter my username and password, it just resets the log in screen
any thoughts will be much appreciated

By: CTown

CTown — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 01:06:44 +0000

By the way, what I did to get to the adminmyphp dashboard is (found on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/phpMyAdmin):

sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow phpmyadmin

Then I used the username "root" to log back in.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:55:17 +0000

sudo chown -R USERNAME /etc/phpmyadmin

By: jeff

jeff — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 07:07:51 +0000

*phpmyadmin

By: jeff

jeff — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 07:07:28 +0000

tried doing this still cant acces popmyadmin unless i change id and group back to www-data

By: Linerd

Linerd — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:39:43 +0000

It looks like you need to add your userID to the www-data group. I had done that as I was trying to get WordPress to work properly and forgotten about it after I made the change to envvars. So make the change to /etc/apache2/envvars as shown in the post. Then add your usedID to the www-data group. You can do this through the menus from System→Administration→Users and Groups, or from the terminal with: [term]sudo adduser yourid www-data[/term] Then restart Apache with [term]sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart[/term]Thanks for helping to debug my blog post! Looks like I have an update to make.