mysql server light is not lit up (it's not on)
hi. does this mean i have to install mysql server?
there are many posts with the same common error i have:
```
access denied!
 mysqlirealconnect(): (hy000/2002): no connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.
phpmyadmin tried to connect to the mysql server, and the server rejected the connection. you should check the host, username and password in your configuration and make sure that they correspond to the information given by the administrator of the mysql server.
```
there's a lot of advice i've already done:
click stop servers and restart servers in mamp
confirm username= "root" and password="root" in the config.inc.php file
from ports --> set web and mysql ports to 80 and 3306
spend hours on stack overflow and reading the other posted messages.
please feel free to suggest anything, there's no harm in suggesting a solution, even if i've already tried it. thanks.
i encountered the same problem as you with mamp's mysql server. i think the source of the problem comes from setting the mysql port to 3306. i went through the same stack overflow solutions that you indicate but none of them fixed the issue. i then decided to reinstall mamp and reset the ports to default before launching the server for the first time (after reinstalling) and it worked. unfortunately, this means that the option to run wordpress locally using the folder's name as a url won't work :( 
wish you the best of luck finding a solution to this problem! if you do, it would be greatly appreciated if you could share your findings :)
hello, the easiest way to fix that would be to alter your existing user with the following: alter user myuser identified with mysql\_native\_password by 'mypassword'; another thing that you could do is to create a new user with mysql\_native\_password. to do that you could use the following: create user 'your\_user'@'your\_server\_ip ' identified with mysql\_native\_password by 'your\_password'; also as mentioned by @kavo13, try to upgrade php to 7.2 as well. after that, it should all work as normal. i’ve created a quick video demo on how to do that: i’m running the test on an ubuntu 18.04 droplet. hope that this helps! regards, bobby Hi  

This is simple. First check whether you are able to connect Sql Server through SSMS or not.If you are able to connect through SSMS, then there may be a problem in connection string. If you are not able to connect through SSMS, then you had some problem with SQL Environment. Dear Jay Nelish


Your Question is incomplete


is the specific system is not on Network? its might be a problem discovered last year, that system ping but not share any data, or cannot access the system


you click on start menu and then click on run  

type serivces.msc  

and run the computer browser service, Remote Procedure call service, Server, and Client service


and your problem will resolved  

but actually this is because of virus change your antivirus program and scan your system wtih updated A/V The clue is `Access denied for user 'homestead'@'localhost'`


Do you have a user called `homestead`? Have you attempted to grant them access to the database?


If you're unsure of the answers to either of those questions, I think you should re-read the documentation. okay, i got it.

this was a server i couldn’t install nscp on, because i got a notification from the msi installer that the system needs a reboot. since this is an important server and i had no downtime, i skipped the installation due to not having any nscp check back then anyway.

today i finally m… hi and welcome!

it’s not an open ondemand thing. you need to setup sshd to allow for hostbasedauthentication and generate some key pairs. this setups some sort of trust between 2 or more servers saying “if you’ve logged into one of them, you can login to the other directly”.

of course we use lots… after further research and coming across [this answer to a similar issue](https://community.auth0.com/t/failed-silent-auth-login-required/33165/39), i made the switch to auth0’s custom domain solution and it fixed all of the issues mentioned above. this topic can be closed! if the server is that old then you'd likely be looking at sql server nearly the same vintage (perhaps sql 2008), you should be able to install a personal edition of 2008 sql on that, run a simple bak file restore with no problem.as stated though, those are well out of support (as you likely know) so it should be a priority that you get both slated for replacement.you mention audit, so i'd wager we are talking at least a public held company. definitely look towards a migration to newer software/hardware for security issues. thank you [@colin](/u/colin)! i enabled port 1880 on my pi using "sudo ufw allow 1880" and after it worked! i seem to have fixed this by myself. i disabled probe on my .vcl and this seemed to fix the 503 issues. here is my .vcl for varnish incase anyone needs it(this might work for you)! :slight\_smile:

vcl 4.0;

backend default {

.host = "127.0.0.1";

.port = "81";

.connect\_timeout = 5s;

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