title: phpmyadmin session error in windows server 2012
body: <p>I'm going to use <code>phpmyadmin</code> in my windows 2012 server. I copied all <code>phpmyadmin</code> files to this root: <code>C:\inetpub\wwwroot\phpmyadmin</code>
  . When I start with <code>http://localhost/phpmyadmin</code></p>
  
  <p>Now I get this error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>#1045 - Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I searched a lot, but none of them works properly. My <code>config.inc.php</code> file:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$cfg['blowfish_secret'] = ''; /* YOU MUST FILL IN THIS FOR COOKIE AUTH! */
  
  /**
   * Servers configuration
   */
  $i = 0;
  
  /**
   * First server
   */
  $i++;
  /* Authentication type */
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'cookie';
  /* Server parameters */
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'localhost';
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type'] = 'tcp';
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['compress'] = false;
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root';
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = '123456';
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] = true;
  
  /**
   * phpMyAdmin configuration storage settings.
   */
  
  /* User used to manipulate with storage */
  // $cfg['Servers'][$i]['controlhost'] = '';
  // $cfg['Servers'][$i]['controlport'] = '';
  // $cfg['Servers'][$i]['controluser'] = 'pma';
  // $cfg['Servers'][$i]['controlpass'] = 'pmapass';
  
  /* Storage database and tables */
  // $cfg['Servers'][$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]['table_uiprefs'] = 'pma__table_uiprefs';
  // $cfg['Servers'][$i]['tracking'] = 'pma__tracking';
  // $cfg['Servers'][$i]['userconfig'] = 'pma__userconfig';
  // $cfg['Servers'][$i]['recent'] = 'pma__recent';
  // $cfg['Servers'][$i]['favorite'] = 'pma__favorite';
  // $cfg['Servers'][$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';
  
  /**
   * End of servers configuration
   */
  
  /**
   * Directories for saving/loading files from server
   */
  $cfg['UploadDir'] = '';
  $cfg['SaveDir'] = '';
  
  /**
   * Whether to display icons or text or both icons and text in table row
   * action segment. Value can be either of 'icons', 'text' or 'both'.
   * default = 'both'
   */
  //$cfg['RowActionType'] = 'icons';
  
  /**
   * Defines whether a user should be displayed a "show all (records)"
   * button in browse mode or not.
   * default = false
   */
  //$cfg['ShowAll'] = true;
  
  /**
   * Number of rows displayed when browsing a result set. If the result
   * set contains more rows, "Previous" and "Next".
   * Possible values: 25, 50, 100, 250, 500
   * default = 25
   */
  //$cfg['MaxRows'] = 50;
  
  /**
   * Disallow editing of binary fields
   * valid values are:
   *   false    allow editing
   *   'blob'   allow editing except for BLOB fields
   *   'noblob' disallow editing except for BLOB fields
   *   'all'    disallow editing
   * default = 'blob'
   */
  //$cfg['ProtectBinary'] = false;
  
  /**
   * Default language to use, if not browser-defined or user-defined
   * (you find all languages in the locale folder)
   * uncomment the desired line:
   * default = 'en'
   */
  //$cfg['DefaultLang'] = 'en';
  //$cfg['DefaultLang'] = 'de';
  
  /**
   * How many columns should be used for table display of a database?
   * (a value larger than 1 results in some information being hidden)
   * default = 1
   */
  //$cfg['PropertiesNumColumns'] = 2;
  
  /**
   * Set to true if you want DB-based query history.If false, this utilizes
   * JS-routines to display query history (lost by window close)
   *
   * This requires configuration storage enabled, see above.
   * default = false
   */
  //$cfg['QueryHistoryDB'] = true;
  
  /**
   * When using DB-based query history, how many entries should be kept?
   * default = 25
   */
  //$cfg['QueryHistoryMax'] = 100;
  
  /**
   * Whether or not to query the user before sending the error report to
   * the phpMyAdmin team when a JavaScript error occurs
   *
   * Available options
   * ('ask' | 'always' | 'never')
   * default = 'ask'
   */
  //$cfg['SendErrorReports'] = 'always';
  
  /**
   * You can find more configuration options in the documentation
   * in the doc/ folder or at &lt;https://docs.phpmyadmin.net/&gt;.
   */
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any idea?</p>