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

Question

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.

Answer 1

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.