Wednesday, November 20, 2013

WAMP phpMyAdmin error #2002 - No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.

Hello,

If you get an error #2002 - No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it when you try to access phpmyAdmin on a WAMP.

Then it is due to your 3306 port is already occupied by some other application. For me it was Skype today, I just needed to close Skype and restart the WAMP server once again and the issue was fixed. Skype will anyways take another vacant port so restart it as well.

You can make changes to my.ini so that it listens to another port, but easier to close Skype.

Try it.

Thanx
Anshumaan Bakshi