MY MySQL username, password??

[w1sh]

I can't figure out what my MySQL username and password is and I need it for Wordpress.

I'm using WAMP Server. Can anyone let me know how to get them? Thanks

[nobody]

Are you running it locally? I'm assuming so since you mentioned WAMP.

Username would be 'root' and password is blank. Obviously you wouldn't want to use these settings in a production environment.

I found this in a 2 second google search. This is really something you should have been able to find out yourself.

[w1sh]

I searched for it for a while and couldn't find that.
What'd you search for? Maybe I'm not utilizing proper search techniques, because I really try not to bug you guys unless I've looked for it myself.
I also posted the same question on WAMP's forum as I do with most questions involving specific things.

I did keep searching and found out what it was and how to modify it though. You have to track down a couple different config files and modify little things in there.

Thanks for the answer though.
After you guys teach me all this stuff and I get good I'll start helping out.
Maybe by then I'll have a couple thousand posts and can become a sexy mod. :)

[nobody]

"default mysql username and password wamp" on google. It was the second result I think.

[w1sh]

I always search as if it's a question rather than just picking out important keywords.
I find a million unanswered threads and eventually decide just to ask here, cause you guys answer me with a minimal amount of hazing and I ruv roo for it.

[Charleh]

I've got a Lightspeed Total Traffic Control log database here - it gives statistics on one of our companies and I'm writing some reports on it... the funny thing is it gives a list of search engine queries that people have run and it's amazing how many people phrase their searches as questions

You can see the audit trail of them searching and finding nothing then searching with similar terms and still not getting anywhere...

I don't think people realise that searching for a phrase isn't the best way to go about things. Computers are logical entities, they don't understand English - not even Ask Jeeves does, even though it may tell you to pose a question!

If you are having trouble with your searching try to pick out the key terms from what you are looking for. Also note that the order of your search terms can affect what comes up.

I find that when Googling if you enter the specific problem first then the technology afterwards (such as 'SSL authentication IIS') you tend to get what you want, but try different combinations.

Of course don't forget all the extra options you have with most search engines, like searching for a phrase using quotes ("Show me the money" as opposed to Show me the money) and the logical - and + operators (cooking fish -salmon = find pages with cooking fish on but without the word salmon), (cooking fish +salmon = find pages with cooking fish on which must contain the word salmon).

I'm sure there are more operators but I don't really use any of them, I always seem to find what I want...also try the Google 'Advanced Search' page!

[utsav]

by default the username is "root" and the password is blank. your host is probably "localhost"