[Ubuntu] Trouble logging on to phpmyadmin

[reggiep]

Hi All,
I'm just installing moodle again (yet again) and I have installed in on a fresh install of ubuntu server 8.04. I'm following instructions from moodle.org that I have used many times before. I thought I would try to log into phpmyadmin on the server, so I duly installed it with apt-get.
However once installed I cannot log on to it with my root user?

Do I have to create a user to log on?

Sorry i think I must have missed something obvious?

[powdarrmonkey]

Have you installed mysqld from apt as well, or compiled it yourself? Did you change the root password? Can you log in to phpMyAdmin with the user for Moodle if you've installed it yet?

[reggiep]

I couldn't find the mysqld package with apt-get?

I wouldn't want to compile anything as it would end up broken so no!

I'm still installing moodle on it now so i will try with the moodle user shortly.

thanks

[powdarrmonkey]

I couldn't find the mysqld package with apt-get?

If it's the same as the Debian package, it will be mysql-server (which will pull in the current version, probably mysql-server-5 or similar).

[reggiep]

Fixed it.
A couple of things were not working so alarm bells started ring.
Anyway it was just bthat the date was wrong on the macine by about 3 years!
Fixed that and everything started working!