Uniform Server 3.5: Clean Unzip, MySQL Error: #1045 Access Denied

[antic]

I have downloaded and unzipped Uniform Server 3.5

 

I have changed nothing.

 

When I run Server_Start.bat everything appears to work perfectly with the exception of MySQL.

 

If I click on phpMyAdmin from the admin panel, I get this:

 

Error

MySQL said:

#1045 - Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

 

If I attempt to change the MySQL password via the admin panel, I get this:

 

Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES) in W:\home\admin\www\mqsetup.php on line 46

Error connecting to mysql

 

I cannot login via command line with "W:\usr\local\mysql\bin\mysql -uroot -proot" because I get the following:

ERROR 1045 (28000) Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

 

I'm at a loss as to how I can get MySQL working. I have no competing installation of MySQL on my box. This is a completely fresh copy of Uniform Server, out of the box.

 

my 'mysql_password' file says 'root' in it. It appears that's what the system things is correct...

[antic]

Well, something was conflicting with it. I tried to install MySQL standalone and it also was unable to connect--until I killed and restarted all mysql and apache related services.

 

Now it works great. Yay! I love Uniform Server

[Elfo Caleb]

Same problem here, but not so lucky =(

 

Tried all the stuff described here, but even if I kill all mysql processes and restarted, i'm unable to access to phpMyadmin

 

WHY?! sigh sob

 

By the way: I'm using Uniform Server for 3-4 months. It's awsome, simple and great, but this thing happened suddenly (yesterday it worked!)