How to Solve the XAMPP 1.7.7 - PHPMyAdmin - MySQL Error #2002 in Ubuntu

Question

I have been through lots of forums and checked various posts on similar topic but non seems to work out for me.

I have freshly installed XAMPP 1.7.7 on my Ubuntu 11

Answer 1

Go to config.inc.php file using terminal by typing the following:

sudo gedit /opt/lampp/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php

The file will open in gedit.

Now open the file and edit

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'localhost';

to

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'cookie';

and keep the username as: root password:

Also make sure that the lines with username and password are not commented:

//$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root'; //$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = '';

Make sure that // is removed from the above lines.