Changed password in phpMyAdmin on a Mac using XAMPP, now unable to access localhost/phpmyadmin

Question

I\'ve read all the posts I could find about this, and none helped. I\'ve deleted the XAMPP folder from my computer and reinstalled it from the DMG file, which of course fixed th

Answer 1

Although, @bool dev have provided an answer above. I would like to share my version of how i resolved this using the terminal. I am using 10.12.5 (OS Serria)

Firstly, you need to have root access

sudo su

Then go to root folder

cd /

From there you need to navigate to the phpMyAdmin folder

cd Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/phpmyadmin/

Then using any editor open the config.inc.php file. (I used vi)

vi config.inc.php

Go to the following section in the file

/* Authentication type */
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = ''; // This is empty, set your password here

Then just restart your MySql server. And viola it should be working now.