mysql said Cannot connect invalid settings xampp

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I changed the root password to test and now I cannot login in phpMyAdmin page in XAMPP  I looked for help here and here which basically says changed config inc php file in XAMPP PHPMYADMIN folder      Authentication type and info     cfg  Servers    i   auth type      config    cfg  Servers    i   host      localhost    cfg  Servers    i   connect type      tcp    cfg  Servers    i   compress     false   cfg  Servers    i   user      root    cfg  Servers    i   password      test       lt ---- changed this  cfg  Servers    i   extension      mysql    cfg  Servers    i   AllowNoPassword     true      User for advanced features     cfg  Servers    i   controluser      pma    cfg  Servers    i   controlpass      test    lt --- I changed this too  Edit  Not needed    This code below works which uses the above password  if   SERVER  REMOTE ADDR     127 0 0 1     define  DATABASE SERVER    localhost    define  DATABASE USERNAME    root    define  DATABASE PASSWORD    test    define  DATABASE NAME    TIGERWOODS         This happend to me bofore on Mac and I could not resolve it  Now it happened again on WinXP  I am using Xampp 1 7 4

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I also had the same problem and it tooks me several hours to figured out   I just changed  config  to  cookie     cfg  Servers    i   auth type      config

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I m using MAMP  but looks like the exact same issue    I changed my root password via phpMyAdmin and got locked out as described  I saw this thread and tried to get it working with the new password but the config updates didn t seem to work for me   I tried to revert  changed the root password back  but it wasn t working  so I hunted around to try and revert my password back to the original  Eventually I discovered that for some strange reason there were multiple root users  root localhost  root 127 0 0 1  root   1    To get it back working basically I did this   mysql -u root -p mysql gt  use mysql  mysql gt  update user set password PASSWORD  root   where User  root   mysql gt  flush privileges  mysql gt  quit   After that I removed all the root users other than localhost  using phpMyAdmin   and I could still login    so  not sure why they were there in the first place   Then  I discovered that MAMP Pro has a button under the MySQL tab that sets the root password  I m not sure what files it edits  or services it restarts  etc    but it worked   References     Reset mysql root password MAMP Doco to change root password

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Step1    Go to xampp phpMyAdmin config inc php   Step2    Search this   cfg  Servers    i   host      127 0 0 1     Step3    Replace with  cfg  Servers    i   host      127 0 0 1 3307    Here 3307 will be change  with your mysql port number  in my case it is 3307  Most of the times it will be 3306   You can check your mysql port number from here   xampp mysql bin my ini

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The above code fixed problem for most of the ppl but I still could not login  Finally I found this  line 9 in the above code needs to be changed    cfg  Servers    i   AllowNoPassword     true     lt --- change this  cfg  Servers    i   AllowNoPassword     false    lt --- to this fixed the problem    Note  there are other areas in localhost where you have to change the password manually  For example in  CD Collection  example  The password is hard coded there rather than picking it up from config inc php

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I made changes to the config file for Laravel and completely forgot the changes  After applying everything from this thread  I had no success   I simply overwrote the config inc file from another xampp installation and it worked fine

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I also had that problem and i did what hairul said    Go to localhost security   Click the orange link localhost security xamppsecurity php Change the password for superuser   root     then i restarted mysql on the xampp control panel and didn t work   It only worked when i restarted my computer

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Put generated password in config inc php if you changed root user password  I was repeatedly putting password that it asks in phpmyadmin and not generated password   Being a noob in php and just starting out in xampp  I changed root user password and phpmyadmin has generate password button which generates password that s suppose to get updated in config inc php files line but it didn t so I manually updated it    cfg  Servers    i   password      dRHfGtwfJXhzC96M      On the other hand  this might also help  it involves adding a line to resetroot bat

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I also faced the same problem it was because another mysql service was running and in parallel mysql in xampp i was trying to run  So you may check that out if other solutions don t work out   You can stop that by the following command   sudo service mysql stop   May help few users

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In xampp phpMyAdmin config inc php   changing    config   cfg  Servers    i   user      root    to   config   cfg  Servers    i   user      user    and   cfg  Servers    i   controluser      root    to   cfg  Servers    i   controluser      user    Solved my Problem

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If you are facing this issue after changing password in phpmyadmin  paste the old password  passwd before change  in xampp phpMyAdmin config inc php     cfg  Servers    i   password        old password here       Hope  it would work

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Opsss  after I change user to  admin   it doesn t have privelege to add database   so I change back the user to  root     Then I change the password from the browser     Go to http   localhost security  and then click on the link http   localhost security xamppsecurity php    After that change pasword for superuser to  root   After that open your http   localhost phpmyadmin   Now it works

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all you have to do is stopping       mysqld exe   from the task manager and restart the server  Xammp

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if you are using google chrome  you can fix the problem via   trying any one of the steps mentioned on this page but you need to clear your whole browsing history      clear all the data that chrome saved onto your computer by pressing ctrl h and the clearing all the browsing data select all the fields now restart php my admin and all will work

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cfg  Servers    i   host      127 0 0 1 3307     if u change port address

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I faced this problem as well but i could fix it by going to the folder  xampp phpmyadmin config inc php  Open config inc php  u will find  if no password    password       or  if old password    password     123   Change the password  cfg  Servers    i   password      test  and u will be able to access phpmyadmin again

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I also have the problem but now solved   cfg  Servers    i   user      admin   - I change the user name from  root  to  admin

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Best Way is reinstall if you have xampp wamp mamp or in linux uninstall and reinstall phpmyadmin by using apt-get

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it may be another mysqld instance running and stoped it with   sudo service mysql stop  Worked for me

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I have been confronted with the same problem  so I went to     xampp phpmyadmin config inc php   I pasted the password which I had enter earlier then I was able to access phpmyadmin again  there in the privileges tab  edit   I chose no password and go then it all came back to life     Also you can change the user to admin but your phpmyadmin would be in admin side and your other localhost website will not work either

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