title: xampp Access denied for user 'pma'@'localhost' (using password: NO)
body: <p>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.</p>
  
  <p>Now it loads a blank page.</p>
  
  <p>I pressed on the sql option and passed the following command - <code>set password for root@localhost = password('something');</code></p>
  
  <p>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.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/1ocez.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">xampp Access denied for user 'pma'@'localhost' (using password: NO)</a>
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  <pre><code>&lt;?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
   */
  ?&gt;
  </code></pre>