XAMPP phpMyadmin: Access denied after changing password

Question

Hi I know its an old question but I have tried many answers and guides but all in vain. I was using phpmyadmin without password on my local machine previously and I changed password using command prompt on windows with following command

mysqladmin.exe -u root password root

Since then I am not able to open my localhost/phpmyadmin and I get following error

1045 - Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)

I have tried changing config.inc.php current status of this file is as following

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = '';
$cfg['Servers'][$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'] = '';

I have tried changing password from localhost/security.php and changed password to 123. I have also tried reseting root password by opening resetroot.bat batch file. I seriously think I have messed all up so if someone can help me here i shall be thank full. I am using Xampp on windows 7

EDIT Also I would like to tell you that I have tried giving new password to

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = '';

And also to

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controluser'] = 'pma';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controlpass'] = '';

changing user to root

Answer 1

Open xampp/phpMyAdmin/config.inc and change the line

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config';

to

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'cookie';

PhpMyAdmin will then show a login screen where you can enter your username and password.

Answer 2

You are define your root password to 'root' with a command prompt, so in config you must have to use same :

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = 'root';