#1045 – Access denied for user ‘root’@’localhost’ (using password: YES)
I first changed the root password running mysql at a prompt with mysql -u root -p Update password: UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD(‘MyNewPass’) WHERE User=”root”; Edited line in the file config.inc.php with the new root password: $cfg[‘Servers’][$i][‘password’] = ‘MyNewPass’ Stop and re-start mysql service (in Windows: mysql_stop.bat/mysql_start.bat) and got phpMyAdmin to work! EDIT 2017: for MySQL≥5.7 … Read more