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порт не стандартный был, изменил - работает
]]>Порт 3307. Проверьте настройки phpMyAdmin.
это изменил так:
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = '127.0.0.1';
и порт там 3307 прописал, толку ноль
Лог mysql:
2014-09-05 23:10:32 6564 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
2014-09-05 23:10:32 19bc InnoDB: Warning: Using innodb_additional_mem_pool_size is DEPRECATED. This option may be removed in future releases, together with the option innodb_use_sys_malloc and with the InnoDB's internal memory allocator.
2014-09-05 23:10:32 6564 [Note] InnoDB: Using atomics to ref count buffer pool pages
2014-09-05 23:10:32 6564 [Note] InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled
2014-09-05 23:10:32 6564 [Note] InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use Windows interlocked functions
2014-09-05 23:10:32 6564 [Note] InnoDB: Memory barrier is not used
2014-09-05 23:10:32 6564 [Note] InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.3
2014-09-05 23:10:32 6564 [Note] InnoDB: Not using CPU crc32 instructions
2014-09-05 23:10:32 6564 [Note] InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 682.0M
2014-09-05 23:10:32 6564 [Note] InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
2014-09-05 23:10:32 6564 [Note] InnoDB: Highest supported file format is Barracuda.
2014-09-05 23:10:32 6564 [Note] InnoDB: 128 rollback segment(s) are active.
2014-09-05 23:10:32 6564 [Note] InnoDB: Waiting for purge to start
2014-09-05 23:10:32 6564 [Note] InnoDB: 5.6.20 started; log sequence number 1626759
2014-09-05 23:10:32 6564 [Note] Server hostname (bind-address): '*'; port: 3307
2014-09-05 23:10:32 6564 [Note] IPv6 is available.
2014-09-05 23:10:32 6564 [Note] - '::' resolves to '::';
2014-09-05 23:10:32 6564 [Note] Server socket created on IP: '::'.
2014-09-05 23:10:32 6564 [Note] Event Scheduler: Loaded 0 events
2014-09-05 23:10:32 6564 [Note] C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.6\bin\mysqld: ready for connections.
Version: '5.6.20' socket: '' port: 3307 MySQL Community Server (GPL)