Connecting to & interacting with servers (SQL&PHP)

[JenLawlor]

I have installed MySQL and will shortly be installing PHP for newspaper database creation. When I connect to the server or if I want to grant authority for access to a database (or even create a database) I get several error messages - mostly access denied and server not located (Telnet....).

The mysqld is running in the background..
Any suggestions will be very much appreciated.

[notabot]

after installing mysql there is a default user "root" with no password which has access to everthing

did u try connecting to the db as this user?

its nice to get a friendly client such as phpmyadmin, mysqlfront (windows), webmin or mycc (linux) to make it a little to easier to admin the server