Problem installing WAMP on Windows 8.1!
I just updated to Windows 8.1 from 8 and installed Wamp server. At first, Wamp is not working. I mean, I can't open the localhost or any other services from Wamp. So I queried Google and tried installing apache (click Wamp -> Apache -> service -> install service) and mysql (click Wamp -> MySql-> service -> install service) service. That's it, everything works.Then I tried the phpmyadmin page but it asked me password like it did the last time. I saved some instructions in my evernote about it once, but I was too fuckin' lazy to go through that shit. So I opened the mysql console and typed:
show databases;
use mysql;
from table user show *;
which gave me the username - 'root' and password - ''(blank), using which I used to logged in to my phpmyadmin. But my lazy ass forgot to think about something. I don't want to go through the login page every time on my local server, so all I need is to disable the login page and save me some overhead. So again I went back to my evernote shits. Then I edited (from dir:root/wamp/apps/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php ) the line:
/* Authentication type */
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'cookie';
to
/* Authentication type */
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config';
Which solved my problem, adios!
Resources that might have helped me:
http://forum.wampserver.com/read.php?2,116611
http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/ehchua/programming/howto/WampServer_HowTo.html
This helps too:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/273159/how-to-determine-if-a-port-is-open-on-a-windows-server
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/resetting-permissions.html