xampp Access denied for user 'pma'@'localhost' (using password: NO)

Question

My phpmyadmin used to load but with the following errors. Haven't found a solution for it yet. Please let me know what I can do, thanks for your time and help.

Now it loads a blank page.

I pressed on the sql option and passed the following command - set password for root@localhost = password('something');

And then I configured phpmyadmin config.inc.php file by replacing 'config' in front of 'auth_type' by 'cookie' and adding my password in the empty '' under it. And that's when my phpmyadmin started going blank. I added my password in the empty '' in front of 'controlpass' under pma after that. Didn't help. I changed it back to the default settings and it'still not working.

xampp Access denied for user 'pma'@'localhost' (using password: NO)

<?php
/*
 * This is needed for cookie based authentication to encrypt password in
 * cookie
 */
$cfg['blowfish_secret'] = 'xamppxamppxamppxamppxamppxamppxampp';
/* YOU SHOULD CHANGE THIS FOR A MORE SECURE COOKIE AUTH! */

/*
 * Servers configuration
 */
$i = 0;
/*
 * First server
 */
$i++;
/* Authentication type and info */
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'cookie';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = 'bananashake';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension'] = 'mysqli';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] = true;
$cfg['Lang'] = '';

/* Bind to the localhost ipv4 address and tcp */
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'localhost';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type'] = 'tcp';

/* User for advanced features */
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controluser'] = 'pma';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controlpass'] = '';

/* Advanced phpMyAdmin features */
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pmadb'] = 'phpmyadmin';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['bookmarktable'] = 'pma__bookmark';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['relation'] = 'pma__relation';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_info'] = 'pma__table_info';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_coords'] = 'pma__table_coords';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pdf_pages'] = 'pma__pdf_pages';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['column_info'] = 'pma__column_info';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['history'] = 'pma__history';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['designer_coords'] = 'pma__designer_coords';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['tracking'] = 'pma__tracking';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['userconfig'] = 'pma__userconfig';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['recent'] = 'pma__recent';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_uiprefs'] = 'pma__table_uiprefs';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['users'] = 'pma__users';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['usergroups'] = 'pma__usergroups';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['navigationhiding'] = 'pma__navigationhiding';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['savedsearches'] = 'pma__savedsearches';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['central_columns'] = 'pma__central_columns';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['designer_settings'] = 'pma__designer_settings';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['export_templates'] = 'pma__export_templates';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['favorite'] = 'pma__favorite';

/*
 * End of servers configuration
 */
?>

Answer 1

Based on the latest information you posted in the comments, it seems phpMyAdmin is connecting to your pre-existing MySQL install. To connect to your XAMPP MySQL DB, revert the changes to the config. (that is, auth_type = 'config')

And add this line to your phpMyAdmin config.inc.php

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['port'] = '3306'; //Change 3306 to the port number of your XAMPP MySQL

Answer 2

this error sometimes happen for me too. this time I tried another browser and it was working fine! ... so I cleared site data and it fixed. so before doing any other solutions try to clear site data first. hope it fix.

Answer 3

This problem or error happen When I installed XAMPP in two different drive, After removing XAMPP in another drive and have only one XAMPP folder in my system , this error fixed for me