title: 1045 cannot log in to the MySQL server
body: <p>After I downloaded:</p>
  <ul>
  <li>Wampserver 2.4</li>
  <li>Apache version 2.4.4</li>
  <li>PHP version 5.4.12</li>
  <li>MySQL version 5.6.12</li>
  </ul>
  <p>On Wampserver 2.4,  make put online -&gt; start all -&gt; click  localhost
  -&gt; click phpMyAdmin.</p>
  <p>On phpMyAdmin screen:</p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>Welcome to phpMyAdmin</p>
  <p>Language - English</p>
  <p>Log in</p>
  <p>Username</p>
  <p>Password</p>
  </blockquote>
  <p>phpMyAdmin requires username and password.</p>
  <p>I did not make any username and password for phpMyAadmin.</p>
  <p>I had no idea, but if I insert some user name and password,
  it says:</p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>1045 cannot log in to the MySQL server</p>
  </blockquote>
  <p>Please let me know what I did wrong.</p>
  <p>For your reference,
  <code>wamp\apps\phpmyadmin4.0.4\config.in.php</code> code:</p>
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
      /* vim: set expandtab sw=4 ts=4 sts=4: */
      /**
       * phpMyAdmin sample configuration, you can use it as base for
       * manual configuration. For easier setup you can use setup/
  
   *
   * All directives are explained in documentation in the doc/ folder
   * or at &lt;http://docs.phpmyadmin.net/&gt;.
   *
   * @package PhpMyAdmin
   */
  
  /*
   * This is needed for cookie based authentication to encrypt password in
   * cookie
   */
  $cfg['blowfish_secret'] = 'a8b7c6d'; /* 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;
  /* Select mysql if your server does not have mysqli */
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension'] = 'mysqli';
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] = true;
  
  /*
   * phpMyAdmin configuration storage settings.
   */
  
  /* User used to manipulate with storage */
  // $cfg['Servers'][$i]['controlhost'] = '';
  // $cfg['Servers'][$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]['designer_coords'] = 'pma__designer_coords';
  // $cfg['Servers'][$i]['userconfig'] = 'pma__userconfig';
  // $cfg['Servers'][$i]['recent'] = 'pma__recent';
  /* Contrib / Swekey authentication */
  // $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_swekey_config'] = '/etc/swekey-pma.conf';
  
  /*
   * End of servers configuration
   */
  
  /*
   * Directories for saving/loading files from server
   */
  $cfg['UploadDir'] = '';
  $cfg['SaveDir'] = '';
  
  /**
   * Defines whether a user should be displayed a &quot;show all (records)&quot;
   * 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, &quot;Previous&quot; and &quot;Next&quot;.
   * default = 30
   */
  //$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';
  
  /**
   * default display direction (horizontal|vertical|horizontalflipped)
   */
  //$cfg['DefaultDisplay'] = 'vertical';
  
  
  /**
   * 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;
  
  /*
   * You can find more configuration options in the documentation
   * in the doc/ folder or at &lt;http://docs.phpmyadmin.net/&gt;.
   */
  ?&gt;
  </code></pre>