You might encounter the following two errors while installing phpMyAdmin on OSX Login without password is forbidden by the configuration ( See AllowNoPassword ) #2002 can not login tot the MySQL server Here are the fixes for the above two errors. 1. Open phpMyAdmin configuration located at (phpMyAdmin Folder)/config.inc.php and change $cfg[‘Servers’][$i][‘AllowNoPassword’] = False; to
Unable to connect mysql on OSX form PHP
If you are unable to connect to mysql from PHP and you are sure that MYSQL is running, then try changing your host name from localhost to 127.0.0.1