How can I access the XAMPP 7.0.9 Security page?

Question

I have a hard time accessing the security page of xampp 7.0.9.

When I try to access http://localhost/security I get an object not found error. If I try to access http://localhost/security/xamppsecurity.php I get an object not found error as well.

I tried to find an answer on the official webpage as well as the offical forums but didnt find anything that could be of help.

Answer 1

Yes it seems like XAMPP has removed the security page. Their argument is that you'll not need the setting for a local environment.

The only problem for someone like me is that I have multiple test sites in my XAMPP server and in all of those test site I've set my mysql root a password. So, I need a mysql root password to be set (since I can't update all my test sites to no-password). I did it using the shell in XAMPP Control Panel

mysqladmin --user=root password "newpassword"

I encounter a new problem, PhpMyAdmin will not work anymore and the login page disappeared when you access http://localhost/phpmyadmin/

For this I opened up config.inc.php file present inside \xampp\phpMyAdmin\ and set the appropriate password there.

/* Authentication type and info */
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = 'password';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension'] = 'mysqli';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] = true;
$cfg['Lang'] = '';