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I am new to using (ubuntu) Linux as a platform for web design, and am currently attempting to install LAMP to allow me to view my work locally. I have everything installed - however I am running into a few problems and do not know what route to take since I am newish to linux as well.

I am trying to access phpMyAdmin via http://localhost which is where the first of my problems popped up. I don't know what the login and password should be - I didn't setup anything like that during the installation of the LAMP server. After testing a few different probable account/password combinations i see that it gives me an error message saying "#1045 can't log in to the MySQL server"

So, I opened terminal to see if mysql was running, and I get error 1045 (28000) access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (bla bla bla)

Francisco
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Paul Wesselkamper
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    Default is root with no password. If a password is set, you would have created one when you installed MySQL as part of the LAMP stack. To reset it, read this https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MysqlPasswordReset – rjdown Jan 16 '16 at 03:56

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You should try username root and no password.
By default MySQL is installed with username root and blank password

The Password is set to password in some versions.

If still you are not able to login then please share your installation procedure for LAMP stack.

Sumit
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  • I have to disagree with Bono, I think this looks like a perfectly reasonable answer. – Isaac Bennetch Jan 17 '16 at 00:38
  • I have to agree, it was reasonable - he was just trying to help me trouble shoot the issue further. And to answer his question - I followed word for word the directions from: http://howtoubuntu.org/how-to-install-lamp-on-ubuntu. When this was unsuccessful, I back-tracked the install then I searched further finding https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ApacheMySQLPHP and following this word for word only to receive the same result. I am truly stumped on this. – Paul Wesselkamper Feb 11 '16 at 06:55