title: phpMyAdmin Failed to Connect to the MySQL Server
body: <p>I used XAMPP to run the phpMyAdmin but it keeps showing this error that says:</p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>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.</p>
  </blockquote>
  <p>Which looks something like this:</p>
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/vPueG.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/vPueG.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>
  <p>Here is my config.inc script:</p>
  <pre><code>/*
   * This is needed for cookie based authentication to encrypt password in
   * cookie
   */
  $cfg['blowfish_secret'] = 'xampp'; /* YOU SHOULD CHANGE THIS FOR A MORE SECURE COOKIE AUTH! */
  
  /*
   * Servers configuration
   */
  $i = 0;
  
  /*
   * First server
   */
  $i++;
  
  /* Authentication type and info */
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config';
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root';
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = '';
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension'] = 'mysqli';
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] = false;
  $cfg['Lang'] = '';
  
  /* Bind to the localhost ipv4 address and tcp */
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'localhost:3307';
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type'] = 'tcp';
  
  /* User for advanced features */
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['controluser'] = 'pma';
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['controlpass'] = '';
  
  /* Advanced phpMyAdmin features */
  $cfg['Servers'][$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]['designer_coords'] = 'pma__designer_coords';
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['tracking'] = 'pma__tracking';
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['userconfig'] = 'pma__userconfig';
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['recent'] = 'pma__recent';
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_uiprefs'] = 'pma__table_uiprefs';
  $cfg['Servers'][$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';
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['favorite'] = 'pma__favorite';
  
  /*
   * End of servers configuration
   */
  
  ?&gt; ```
  
  
  </code></pre>