title: phpMyAdmin Connection for controluser as defined in your configuration failed
body: <p>So, today for the first time i installed XAMPP/LAMPP on Ubuntu 15.10. Apache server is working fine, but when i try to go to 'localhost/phpmyadmin' I get the following error:
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/iMRPV.png" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/iMRPV.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>And believe me i searched through whole internet, stack overflow, apache friends, etc. and none of given solutions worked for me... So this is my config.inc.php file:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
  $i++;
  /* Authentication type */
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'cookie'; 
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root';
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = '';
  /* Server parameters */
  //$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'localhost';
  //$cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type'] = 'tcp';
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['compress'] = false;
  $cfg['Servers'][$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'] = '';
  
  /* 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';
  /* Contrib / Swekey authentication */
  // $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_swekey_config'] = '/etc/swekey-pma.conf';
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So you can see that my user = root and password is empty. But it simply doesn't work, i tried to change user/pass, tried to change controluser and controlpass, but nothing seems to work. Do you have any idea on how i can fix this problem?</p>