title: MySQL said: Documentation #2002 - The server is not responding + windows 8 + wampserver
body: <p>I have wampserver 2.2, PHP 5.3.9, Mysql 5.0.8 and windows 8 as an operating system. I have installed wampsever recently and localhost is working fine with it but when I am trying to open phpadmin through wamp system tray icon it showing the following error : </p>
  
  <blockquote>
  <pre><code>Error
  
  MySQL said: Documentation 
   #2002 - The server is not responding (or the local MySQL server's socket is not correctly configured)
  </code></pre>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I am searching from last couple of days in google to resolve this issue but not getting any solution. Following is my config.inc.php file</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
  
  /* Servers configuration */
  $i = 0;
  
  /* Server: localhost [1] */
  $i++;
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['verbose'] = 'localhost';
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = '127.0.0.1';
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['port'] = '3306';
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['socket'] = '/tmp/mysql.sock';
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type'] = 'socket';
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension'] = 'mysqli';
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config';
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root';
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = 'root';
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type'] = 'tcp';
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] = true;
  
  /* End of servers configuration */
  
  $cfg['DefaultLang'] = 'en-utf-8';
  $cfg['ServerDefault'] = 1;
  $cfg['UploadDir'] = '';
  $cfg['SaveDir'] = '';
  
  
  /* rajk - for blobstreaming */
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['bs_garbage_threshold'] = 50;
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['bs_repository_threshold'] = '32M';
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['bs_temp_blob_timeout'] = 600;
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['bs_temp_log_threshold'] = '32M';
  
  ?&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Need help for this. Thanks in advance.</p>