Buna!
phpmyadmin l-ai pus sau l-ai instalat?
si daca intri cu adresa httpd://localhost/phpmyadmin trebuie sa configurezi si apache ptr ca el vine preconfigurat in ../var/www
l-am si pus adica extras din arhiva, l-am si instalat, aceiasi problema

versiunea cere am ainstalat-o cu ium i-am facut alias in lighttpd.conf ca sa mi-l poata citi, si imi da exact aceiasi eroare.
Faza e ca nu prea am inteles ce a vrut sa zica in tutorial aici:
Create a password for the MySQL user root (replace yourrootsqlpassword with the password you want to use):
mysqladmin -u root password yourrootsqlpassword
Then check with
netstat -tap | grep mysql
on which addresses MySQL is listening. If the output looks like this:
tcp 0 0 localhost.localdo:mysql *:* LISTEN 2713/mysqld
which means MySQL is listening on localhost.localdomain only, then you're safe with the password you set before. But if the output looks like this:
tcp 0 0 *:mysql *:* LISTEN 2713/mysqld
you should set a MySQL password for your hostname, too, because otherwise anybody can access your database and modify data:
mysqladmin -h server1.example.com -u root password yourrootsqlpassword
eu am inteles ca asta mysqladmin -u root password yourrootsqlpassword este general, iar tcp 0 0 localhost.localdo:mysql *:* LISTEN 2713/mysqld pentru utilizare aparte , adica cand se gazduiesc mai multe servere pe acelasi PC.
mysql> \s
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mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.1.36, for redhat-linux-gnu (i386) using readline 5.1
Connection id: 17
Current database:
Current user: root@localhost
SSL: Not in use
Current pager: stdout
Using outfile: ''
Using delimiter: ;
Server version: 5.1.36 Source distribution
Protocol version: 10
Connection: Localhost via UNIX socket
Server characterset: latin1
Db characterset: latin1
Client characterset: latin1
Conn. characterset: latin1
UNIX socket: /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
Uptime: 7 hours 36 min 13 sec
Threads: 1 Questions: 14 Slow queries: 0 Opens: 15 Flush tables: 1 Open tables: 8 Queries per second avg: 0.0
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