phpMyAdmin Connection for controluser as defined in your configuration failed

Question

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:

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:

<?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';

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?

Answer 1

reinstall phpmyadmin and try

Code:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure phpmyadmin

if that doesn't work then try Code:

sudo apt-get --purge remove phpmyadmin

then reinstall, if that doesn't work I'm willing to bet it doesn't matter and do Code:

sudo ln -s /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf

and restart apache Code:

##sudo /etc/init.d/apache reload sudo service apache2 reload