title: #1045 Cannot log in to the MySQL server - Googling for 30 minutes. Don't know what to do
body: <p>I'll call myself stupid and lazy (even though I've been searching for 45 minutes) in advance, because I know this is a commonly asked question.</p>
  
  <p>I downloaded XAMPP a few months ago. Today I'm trying to log into phpMyAdmin as root, but I get the error message in my title.</p>
  
  <p>I went to the config.inc.php file and changed the root password from just '' to see if it would help, but it didn't.</p>
  
  <p>I also changed my port number in the Apache (httpd.conf) file multiple times but that didn't help either. </p>