

If you use the root user with an empty password ( the root user’s password is empty by default ), it will pop up the error message Failed to Connect to MySQL at 127.0.0.1:3306 with user root.

3.How To Fix Can Not Connect To MySQL Server With Root User Error.

If you want to know where the XAMPP files are installed, you can click the Volumes tab in the above XAMPP manager window, then click the Mount button to mount the /opt/lampp directory on the XAMPP Linux server to local Mac OS, then click Explore button to open XAMPP install folder in popup local Mac Finder window.Click the Open Terminal button will open a terminal and login to the embedded Linux server with the root user. Click the Go to Application button will show you the XAMPP dashboard in a popup web browser.The server is running in an embedded Linux server, and the server IP is just the IP address. After clicking the Start button, you can see the server status and server IP Address at the top area of the above XAMPP window.Click the Start button to start both Apache, MySQL, and FTP server as services. After clicking the XAMPP icon, it will display the below popup window.After install, you can start it by clicking the XAMPP icon in the Finder /Applications folder.

