setting a password for user ‘root’ : wampserver way

When You open phpmyadmin from wampserver you’ll see message :

Your configuration file contains settings (root with no password) that correspond to the default MySQL privileged account. Your MySQL server is running with this default, is open to intrusion, and you really should fix this security hole by setting a password for user ‘.root’.

To change the password just follow this technique.

MySQL version used by Wampserver depend on its version.

Technique I (visual way)

1. Open phpmyadmin
2. Click Privileges

3. Click Edit icon in same line where host “localhost” located.

change_mysql_root_password_on_windows : Click Edit icon in same line where host "localhost" located

4. Enter password by type it inside number 1 and 2 ( see picture)

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