Connection for controluser as defined in your configuration failed with phpMyAdmin in XAMPP

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I have just installed XAMPP on my Windows XP machine  and I get an error saying      Connection for controluser as defined in your configuration failed    Before I installed XAMPP  I had a MySQL database installed and it had a password  I changed and put the password in config inc php for MySQL  and I got this error     lt  php if   empty   SERVER  HTTPS     amp  amp    on       SERVER  HTTPS            uri    https        else        uri    http         uri      SERVER  HTTP HOST    header  Location     uri   xampp     exit    gt    When I try to access index php  it seems like something is wrong with the XAMPP installation   What can I do to fix this problem

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on ubuntu  etc phpmyadmin config-db php   make sure the password matches your config inc php for the control user   also for the blowfish too short error   edit  var lib phpmyadmin blowfish secret inc php and make the key longer

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on ubuntu 18 04   in etc phpmyadmin config inc php  comment all the block    Optional  User for advanced features

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Have you recently changed your MySQL Server root password  If answer is YES  than this is the cause of the error   warning inside phpMyAdmin console  To fix the problem  simply edit your phpMyAdmin   s config-db php file and setup the proper database password   First answer is messing too much in my view and second answer did not work for me  So   In Linux-based servers the file is usually located in    etc phpmyadmin config-db php   or    etc phpMyAdmin config-db php   Example   My File looked like this and I changed  the user fromphpmyadmin to admin  the username I created for maintaining my database through phpmyadmin  and put in the appropriate password    dbuser  phpmyadmin    dbpass        set current password between quotes      basepath      dbname  phpmyadmin    dbserver      dbport      dbtype  mysql     credits  http   tehnoblog org phpmyadmin-error-connection-for-controluser-as-defined-in-your-configuration-failed

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Open phpMyAdmin in a browser and log in as root  Create a database called phpmyadmin Create a user called pma and set the  host  to the hostname or IP address of your web server  if the web server and MySQL are on the same box use localhost   make a note of the password  and grant the new user full control over the phpmyadmin database  It is recommended that this user does not have access to anything other than this database  Go to the phpMyAdmin installation directory  where you should find a sub-directory called sql  In sql you will find a file called create tables sql  Open it in a text editor  In phpMyAdmin  select the phpmyadmin database and click on the  SQL  tab  Copy paste the entire text from create tables sql into the text box  and run the query  Open the config inc php file in the phpMyAdmin install directory  and add the following lines  or change the existing settings if they are already there     cfg  Servers   1   pmadb      phpmyadmin    cfg  Servers   1   controluser      pma    cfg  Servers   1   controlpass       lt your password gt        Note  The list below may grow as PMA evolves and more control tables are added    Use your common sense  Don t just blindly copypasta  look at what it means   cfg  Servers   1   bookmarktable      pma bookmark    cfg  Servers   1   relation      pma relation    cfg  Servers   1   userconfig      pma userconfig    cfg  Servers   1   table info      pma table info    cfg  Servers   1   column info      pma column info    cfg  Servers   1   history      pma history    cfg  Servers   1   recent      pma recent    cfg  Servers   1   table uiprefs      pma table uiprefs    cfg  Servers   1   tracking      pma tracking    cfg  Servers   1   table coords      pma table coords    cfg  Servers   1   pdf pages      pma pdf pages    cfg  Servers   1   designer coords      pma designer coords    Save and close the file    IMPORTANT - PMA loads the config on login  evaluates it and stores it into the session data so the message will not disappear until you do this    Log out of phpMyAdmin and log in again   Problem solved

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The problem is that PhpMyAdmin control user  usually  pma  password does not match the mysql user  pma  same user  password   To fix it   1  Set the password you want for user pma here       C  xampp phpMyAdmin config inc php        cfg  Servers    i   controlpass      your new phpmyadmin pass          should be like on line 32    Then go to mysql  login as root  go to   I used phpmyadmin to go here      Database  mysql   Table  user   Edit the user  pma  Select  Password  from the function list  left column  and set  your new phpmyadmin pass  on the right column and hit go   Restart mysql server   Now the message should disappear

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I just simply make changes on config inc php  file   There is password in error in this link  cfg  Servers    i   password      your password    and now its perfectly worked

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This worked for me with phpmyadmin under Ubuntu 16 04   I edited  etc phpmyadmin config inc php and changed the following 2 lines    cfg  Servers    i   controluser      root     cfg  Servers    i   controlpass      thepasswordgiventoroot

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For me to make it work again I just deleted the files  ib logfile0 and  ib logfile1    from     Applications MAMP db mysql56 ib logfile0    On XAMPP its Xampp xamppfiles var mysql  Got this from PHP Warning  mysqli connect     HY000 2002   Connection refused

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On Ubunbtu   Ben s message is close but it s not the root password that is the problem  the problem I found was I had created a password for the phpmyadmin database when I installed it  This password is not carried into the installation on ubuntu so the variable  dbpass     in the database settings file is empty and not the password you set    To check you have the right password at the command line login to mysql using the following command  mysql -u phpmyadmin -p try a blank password I found I got access denied  enter the command again using the password you set during installation  If it logs in you now know what the password is  Edit  etc phpadmin config-db php and change  dbpass     to  dbpass  Your Password   and save the file  Edit  etc dbconfig-common phpmyadmin conf change dbc dbpass     to dbc dbpass  Your Password   and save the file  Close your browser and reload you will now find the message has gone way

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Having just installed the XAMPP today  I decided to use a different default port for mysql  which was horrible  Make sure to add these lines to the phpMyAdmin config inc php    cfg  Servers    i   host      localhost     cfg  Servers    i   port      port

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If you got here and you are using Debian Ubuntu  or any other dpkg based distro   execute the following command   sudo dpkg-reconfigure phpmyadmin   The phpmyadmin package contains the script to perform this operation for you  all it needs is a user with permissions  sudo is not required if you re logged in as root  of course   EDIT  It might be worth trying to drop the current phpmyadmin user

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Just comment out the whole  User for advanced features  and  Advanced phpMyAdmin features  code blocks in config inc php

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