title: WAMP - mysql Error 500 - error while retrieving http://localhost/phpmyadmin/
body: <p>Hello I just installed WAMP and get the green icon in the bottom of the screen. The local host loads fine and when I click on php info everything works fine.</p>
  
  <p>My problem is when I click on phpmyadmin I get the error code 500 - The website encountered an error while retrieving ...localhost/phpmyadmin/. It may be down for maintenance or configured incorrectly.</p>
  
  <p>I installed Apache before I installed WAMP. Could this be the issue?</p>
  
  <p>My mysql log shows this....</p>
  
  <pre><code>2013-09-10 10:34:58 5872 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
  2013-09-10 10:34:58 5872 [Note] InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled
  2013-09-10 10:34:58 5872 [Note] InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use Windows interlocked functions
  2013-09-10 10:34:58 5872 [Note] InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.3
  2013-09-10 10:34:58 5872 [Note] InnoDB: Not using CPU crc32 instructions
  2013-09-10 10:34:58 5872 [Note] InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 128.0M
  2013-09-10 10:34:58 5872 [Note] InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
  2013-09-10 10:34:58 5872 [Note] InnoDB: Highest supported file format is Barracuda.
  2013-09-10 10:34:58 5872 [Note] InnoDB: 128 rollback segment(s) are active.
  2013-09-10 10:34:58 5872 [Note] InnoDB: Waiting for purge to start
  2013-09-10 10:34:58 5872 [Note] InnoDB: 5.6.12 started; log sequence number 1626007
  2013-09-10 10:34:58 5872 [Note] Server hostname (bind-address): '*'; port: 3306
  2013-09-10 10:34:58 5872 [Note] IPv6 is available.
  2013-09-10 10:34:58 5872 [Note] - '::' resolves to '::';
  2013-09-10 10:34:58 5872 [Note] Server socket created on IP: '::'.
  2013-09-10 10:34:58 5872 [Note] Event Scheduler: Loaded 0 events
  2013-09-10 10:34:58 5872 [Note] wampmysqld: ready for connections.
  Version: '5.6.12-log' socket: '' port: 3306 MySQL Community Server (GPL)
  </code></pre>