title: The server is not responding (or the local MySQL server's socket is not correctly configured) in wamp server
body: <p>I am currently getting this error in my phpmyadmin:</p>
  <h1>2002 - The server is not responding (or the local MySQL server's socket is not correctly configured)</h1>
  <p>I tried googling and give each solutions i found a try. Unfortunately, nothing worked for me.</p>
  <p>By the way, I am using wamp server.</p>
  <p>Below is my configuration file of config.inc.php from C:\wamp\apps\phpmyadmin3.2.0.1.</p>
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
  
  /* Servers configuration */
  $i = 0;
  
  /* Server: localhost [1] */
  $i++;
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['verbose'] = 'localhost';
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'localhost';
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['port'] = '';
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['socket'] = '/tmp/mysql.sock';
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type'] = 'tcp';
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension'] = 'mysqli';
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config';
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root';
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = '';
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] = true;
  
  /* End of servers configuration */
  
  $cfg['DefaultLang'] = 'en-utf-8';
  $cfg['ServerDefault'] = 1;
  $cfg['UploadDir'] = '';
  $cfg['SaveDir'] = '';
  
  ?&gt;
  </code></pre>