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Installing xampp but phpmyadmin doesn't connect

So I installed xampp on my Linux machine running Ubuntu 14.04LTS. Now all of a sudden turns out when I try to connect to phpmyadmin it refuses to connect. I have already installed mysql separately as well but it doesn't seem to work. Any workaround for this?

The error that I get is :

MySQL said:

Cannot connect: invalid settings. Connection for controluser as defined in your configuration failed. phpMyAdmin tried to connect to the MySQL server, and the server rejected the connection. You should check the host, username and password in your configuration and make sure that they correspond to the information given by the administrator of the MySQL server.

Any reason why this happens and solution to it?

Solution

    1. Go to http://localhost/security/ and then click on the link http://localhost/security/xamppsecurity.php.

    2. After that change password for superuser to 'root'.

      After that open your http://localhost/phpmyadmin/