i have installed wamp on my computer and when i access phpmyadmin i get the following error

#1045 - Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)

i already have xampp installed on my computer, i want to learn smarty templates so i am using wamp for the sake of learning smarty, i do not want to install smarty on xampp as it is already configured with other settings so i would like to use wamp

i am using windows xp service pack 2

i have chaned the port to 81 in the httpd.conf configuration file of wamp and changed server name to localhost:81 so i access wamp as
http://localhost:81 this works fine, from this page when i click on phpmyadmin link i get the error

#1045 - Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)

i have followed the steps from the following links

http://www.wampserver.com/phorum/read.php?2,30300
http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=58057


i have tried stopping all services and restarted wamp service however i am not able to access phpmyadmin but i am able to access wamp as
http://localhost:81 and any files i create in the wamp/www folder

please advice.

thanks

supply the correct password for the root user

thanks for replying

in the config.inc.php file at wamp/aps/phpmyadmin3.2.0.1/ i have made the following changes

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = 'root';

i have stopped and restarted wamp when i access phpmyadmin i see a blank screen. earlier i editted config.default.php
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = '';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['port'] = '';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = '';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = '';

and i have made all the above 4 as blank should i enter the following and restart wamp
'host' = localhost:81
'port' = 81
'user' = root
'password'= password

please advice.

thanks.

Don't bother with Smarty Template Engine, it's horrible. Also, if you having a problem with phpmyadmin, you will have even more of a problem with smarty. I suggest practicing with just php before diving into the ste.

Just my 2cents

Are you able to connect to mysql from command like with root/root@localhost?