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I am trying to setup a website with database and I executed the following to install phpmyadmin. (already a root user)

apt-get install phpmyadmin

installation finished successfully.

When I tried logging in from /phpmyadmin
I got the following error(s):

mysqli_real_connect(): (HY000/1698): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost'

I tried logging in from terminal using mysql -u root -p root and that worked.

What can be done in order to overcome this issue?

This is not a duplicate of "forgotten phpmyadmin password" because the password works on serverside, mysql.

The config.inc.php file looks like this :

<?php

/**

 * Debian local configuration file

 *

 * This file overrides the settings made by phpMyAdmin interactive setup

 * utility.

 *

 * For example configuration see

 *   /usr/share/doc/phpmyadmin/examples/config.sample.inc.php

 * or

 *   /usr/share/doc/phpmyadmin/examples/config.manyhosts.inc.php

 *

 * NOTE: do not add security sensitive data to this file (like passwords)

 * unless you really know what you're doing. If you do, any user that can

 * run PHP or CGI on your webserver will be able to read them. If you still

 * want to do this, make sure to properly secure the access to this file

 * (also on the filesystem level).

 */



if (!function_exists('check_file_access')) {

    function check_file_access($path)

    {

        if (is_readable($path)) {

            return true;

        } else {

            error_log(

                'phpmyadmin: Failed to load ' . $path

                . ' Check group www-data has read access and open_basedir restrictions.'

            );

            return false;

        }

    }

}



// Load secret generated on postinst

if (check_file_access('/var/lib/phpmyadmin/blowfish_secret.inc.php')) {

    require('/var/lib/phpmyadmin/blowfish_secret.inc.php');

}



// Load autoconf local config

if (check_file_access('/var/lib/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php')) {

    require('/var/lib/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php');

}



/**

 * Server(s) configuration

 */

$i = 0;

// The $cfg['Servers'] array starts with $cfg['Servers'][1].  Do not use $cfg['Servers'][0].

// You can disable a server config entry by setting host to ''.

$i++;



/**

 * Read configuration from dbconfig-common

 * You can regenerate it using: dpkg-reconfigure -plow phpmyadmin

 */

if (check_file_access('/etc/phpmyadmin/config-db.php')) {

    require('/etc/phpmyadmin/config-db.php');

}



/* Configure according to dbconfig-common if enabled */

if (!empty($dbname)) {

    /* Authentication type */

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

    /* Server parameters */

    if (empty($dbserver)) $dbserver = 'localhost';

    $cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = $dbserver;



    if (!empty($dbport) || $dbserver != 'localhost') {

        $cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type'] = 'tcp';

        $cfg['Servers'][$i]['port'] = $dbport;

    }

    //$cfg['Servers'][$i]['compress'] = false;

    /* Select mysqli if your server has it */

    $cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension'] = 'mysqli';

    /* Optional: User for advanced features */

    $cfg['Servers'][$i]['controluser'] = $dbuser;

    $cfg['Servers'][$i]['controlpass'] = $dbpass;

    /* Optional: Advanced phpMyAdmin features */

    $cfg['Servers'][$i]['pmadb'] = $dbname;

    $cfg['Servers'][$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';



    /* Uncomment the following to enable logging in to passwordless accounts,

     * after taking note of the associated security risks. */

    // $cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] = TRUE;



    /* Advance to next server for rest of config */

    $i++;

}



/* Authentication type */

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

/* Server parameters */

//$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'localhost';

//$cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type'] = 'tcp';

//$cfg['Servers'][$i]['compress'] = false;

/* Uncomment the following to enable logging in to passwordless accounts,

 * after taking note of the associated security risks. */

// $cfg['Servers'][$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'] = 'pmapass';



/* 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';



/*

 * End of servers configuration

 */



/*

 * Directories for saving/loading files from server

 */

$cfg['UploadDir'] = '';

$cfg['SaveDir'] = '';



/* Support additional configurations */

foreach (glob('/etc/phpmyadmin/conf.d/*.php') as $filename)

{

    include($filename);

}

edit: the website is on an ubuntu(bionic) server