Fix Access denied for user root localhost for phpMyAdmin

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I m using WAMP Server 2 2 on a PC  In phpMyAdmin  version 5 5 24  I edited the  root  user  with  localhost  host  and gave it a password of  root   This turned out to be a big mistake that I m trying to revert  Now when I go to localhost phpmyadmin  I get the menu of databases on the left  but the main frame has an error that reads    1045 - Access denied for user  root   localhost   using password  NO  phpMyAdmin tried to connect to the MySQL server  and the server rejected the  connection  You should check the host  username and password in your  configuration and make sure that they correspond to the information given  by the administrator of the MySQL server    If I go to 127 0 0 1 phpmyadmin  I do not get the error and everything works fine   I tried changing the user s password back to no password  I tried modifying config inc php file to add the new password  but that made phpMyAdmin error-out completely   I tried removing and recreating the root localhost user  Nothing seems to work  The root localhost user appears to have no password and all privileges  but the error remains   Any ideas or how I can get this user s access back to normal without having to reinstall WAMP

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Sometimes the config is not always the problem.

Try checking the MySql config. If yuh have changed the port no. on mysql make the similar changes to PHP config php.ini. Find and replace the necessary changes.

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Well    That seems very odd to me  but it suddenly worked    What I did exactly was    Navigated to phpMyAdmin folder  and edited the file  config inc php  Looked for the line   cfg  Servers    i   password         Added any password between     let s say  1234  Reloaded localhost phpmyadmin  amp  127 0 0 1 phpmyadmin  both showed the same error  Reverted  config inc php  to the old state  removed the password  Re-did step 4   And suddenly it worked

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i also faced this problem   i found password field was blank in config file of phpmyadmin  i put that password which i filled in database settings  now it is working fine

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I had the same problem after i had changed the passwords in the database   what i did was the editing of the updated password i had changed earlier and i didn t update in the config inc php and the same username under D  xamp phpMyAdmin config inc   cfg  Servers    i   auth type      config    cfg  Servers    i   user        root      cfg  Servers    i   password        epufhy      cfg  Servers    i   extension      mysqli    cfg  Servers    i   AllowNoPassword     true   cfg  Lang

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Also beware that  setup   i e  localhost phpmyadmin setup  has an error in the way it handles the  no password  option   While it creates a line that says    cfg  Servers    i   nopassword     true    the actual name of the parameter should be as shown here    cfg  Servers    i   AllowNoPassword     true    This  setup  error exists as of today  Oct 20  2015

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Dagon had the right idea but was a little short on details   If you use the access 127 0 0 1 phpmyadmin and have a close look at the Users that are setup in MysQL you should see 3 versions of the root username   This is because in MySQL each userid is associated with a HOST  i e  The PC   ip address   that the user is allowed to sign in from  So your 3   root  userids are in fact the same userid which is allowed to signin from 3 seperate HOSTS  Normally out of the box the  root  has 3 HOSTS setup  127 0 0 1  localhost and   1  These are  -   localhost is an alias for THIS MACHINE created from your HOSTS file   c  windows system32 drivers etc hosts    127 0 0 1 is the IPv4 loopback ip address of THIS MACHINE    1  is the IPv6 loopback ip address of THIS MACHINE  What is probably happening to you is that you have set a password for root 127 0 0 1 but not any of the others  Now your browser will  arbtrarily  decide to use   1 or 127 0 0 1 as the host ip so when it uses   1 your login will fail   So login using 127 0 0 1 phpmyadmin and change all 3  root  usernames to have the same password you should no longer see this problem   Also make sure that your HOSTS file has these 2 entries  127 0 0 1  localhost   1        localhost

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What worked for me  Go to config inc php  Change  cfg  Servers    i   AllowNoPassword     true   to  cfg  Servers    i   AllowNoPassword     false   Change  cfg  Servers    i   password          to  cfg  Servers    i   password           Change  cfg  Servers    i   auth type      config    to  cfg  Servers    i   auth type      http    Reload the page http   localhost phpmyadmin Type   root pass    empty  Now you have access to it

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Locate config inc php file under C  xampp phpMyAdmin and open it in any editor  Find the following line    cfg  Servers    i   password             Enter the chosen password inside the quotes  Also  in order to make localhost phpmyadmin ask for a username and password  find the following line    cfg  Servers    i   auth type      config     Change the above line to    cfg  Servers    i   auth type      cookie

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xampp phpMyAdmin config inc  Find-   cfg  Servers    i   auth type      config   and change the  config  to  http  and that will allow you to type the user name and password when you go to your phpMyAdmin page using your browser

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After I change the password for my  root  in phpMyAdmin page  I had a same problem and also looking for the solutions from the internet but fail to get the answer I needed  so I check the documentation inside the phpMyAdmin directory   Go to and edit the file   modules phpmyadmin414x140123114237 config sample inc php   look for line   cfg  Servers    i   auth type      config    and change the  config  to  http  and that will allow you to type the user name and password when you go to your phpMyAdmin page using your browser   OR  see the documentation file under the same phpMyAdmin directory  phpmyadmin414x140123114237 doc html  for help and search for  cfg  Servers    i   auth type   and you will see 4 options to choose from as to how to login to your phpMyAdmin page

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Find config inc file under C  wamp apps phpmyadmin3 5 1 Inside this file find   this one line    cfg  Servers    i   password         and replace it with   cfg  Servers    i   password      Type your root password here

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I faced the same issue with XAMPP and phpMyAdmin and this is how I solved it easily   1  Open the XAMPP control panel  2  Then select the Explorer Button on the right     3  Then it will be navigated to the location where the configurations are and you have to go in side the phpMyAdmin folder and then right click on the highlighted folder and choose edit option on any text editor   4  Then edit only the following rounded section as of your MySQL server username and password If your MySQL server username is root and If your MySQL server password is root  keep as of the image Change them according to your username and password which you have given to MySQL server    5  Save the changes and open your browser and paste http   localhost phpmyadmin index php to navigate to phpMyAdmin

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I use this URL to enter phpMyAdmin http   localhost 2145 phpmyadmin but get the following error       phpMyAdmin tried to connect to the MySQL server  and the server rejected the connection  You should check the host  username and password in your configuration and make sure that they correspond to the information given by the administrator of the MySQL server  my config inc php file is       cfg  Servers    i   auth type      config    cfg  Servers    i   user      root    cfg  Servers    i   password          cfg  Servers    i   host      localhost 2145    cfg  Servers    i   connect type      cookie    cfg  Servers    i   compress     false   cfg  Servers    i   AllowNoPassword     true     User used to manipulate with storage        cfg  Servers    i   controlhost             cfg  Servers    i   controlport          cfg  Servers    i   controluser          cfg  Servers    i   controlpass           this change resolve the mistake for me   cfg  Servers    i   auth type      cookie    cfg  Servers    i   user      root    cfg  Servers    i   password            Server parameters     cfg  Servers    i   host      localhost    cfg  Servers    i   connect type      tcp    cfg  Servers    i   compress     false   cfg  Servers    i   AllowNoPassword     true    and then  sudo service mysql stop  opt lampp lampp start   and problem solved

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If you have existing password for mysql then write as mentioned below    Find config dot inc file under C  wamp apps phpmyadmin3 5 1 Inside this file find this one line   cfg  Servers    i   password         and replace it with   cfg  Servers    i   password        your-password

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using   cfg  Servers    i   auth type      config   is insecure i think   using cookies with  cfg  Servers    i   auth type      cookie   is better i think   I also added    cfg  LoginCookieRecall     true    cfg  LoginCookieValidity     100440    cfg  LoginCookieStore     0     Define how long login cookie should be stored in browser  Default 0 means that it will be kept for existing session  This is recommended for not trusted environments   cfg  LoginCookieDeleteAll     true    If enabled  default   logout deletes cookies for all servers  otherwise only for current one  Setting this to false makes it easy to forget to log out from other server  when you are using more of them    I added this in phi ini  session gc maxlifetime 150000

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Try to find  cfg  Servers    i   password         in config file located  wamp scripts config inc php  Then set the password to your mysql password and refresh PhpmyAdmin

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To resolve the above error -  a   Open Mysql console from the tray of WAMP server  b   It will ask for a password you might have set this password earlier when u installed MySql in your system  In my case it is admin   c   Enter admin  press enter    Now it means your PhpMyAdmin is assuming no password for your MySql and unable to connect MySql but you are able to connect your MySql Server by providing the password For this Open config inc file from the below path  C  wamp apps phpmyadmin4 1 14  And replace this line   cfg  Servers    i   password              to    cfg  Servers    i   password      admin    I hope it will work

[php] Fix Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' for phpMyAdmin

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