cannot access phpmyadmin

Question

I get this error everytime I try to access phpmyadmin. http://i49.tinypic.com/ot1478.jpg

I cant access it because I've put a password on the root user. How do I get to have a login form in phpmyadmin so that I could at least try to authenticate that I'm the root user. Because in its current state, it wouldnt even bother to authenticate who is the user by at least having a login form. How do I get to have a login form in phpmyadmin. I'm just a beginner and I don't have time to read on documentations that can take days to read. Like this one: http://www.phpmyadmin.net/documentation/Documentation.html#config

Please help. Im stuck in this problem I couldnt get any solutions from google or in any other place.

Answer 1

I'm just a beginner and I don't have time to read on documentations that can take days to read.

That's a very, very bad way to start fiddling with phpMyAdmin. :) (or any other security sensitive software, for that matter.)

There's a Quick Install chapter. Have you tried starting the setup script? It makes installation very easy. You just need to keep in mind that it won't install the configuration file it creates - you need to put that into the phpMyAdmin directory manually using your FTP program.

Answer 2

Taken from here...

You need to change the values for the $cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] and $cfg['Servers'][$i]['passwd'] in phpMyAdmin's config file. Before you do that though, look at the value for $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type']. If it's "config", then go ahead and change the username and password to whatever you want. If it's "cookie" or "http", then you need to create a new MySQL user account before you change those values.