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 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] = true;
2. In the configuration file change $cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'localhost';
to $cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = '127.0.0.1';