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I want to make a password for my phpmyadmin how can i do that ? And how can i see what my password is for phpmyadmin ?

Generally there is no need for setting a password for phpmyadmin because the new security concept only grants access to phpmyadmin from localhost.

Altrea wrote:Generally there is no need for setting a password for phpmyadmin because the new security concept only grants access to phpmyadmin from localhost.

So do i have a password ?

btisson wrote:So do i have a password ?

No, Apache analyses the request especially where it comes from and if the request is not sent from localhost it will be rejected.

Or do you mean the database password phpmyadmin uses to authenticate against MySQL? This is independend from phpmyadmin. phpmyadmin is just a GUI to administrate MySQL. By default there is a MySQL Administrator user named root with no password.

Altrea wrote:

btisson wrote:So do i have a password ?

No, Apache analyses the request especially where it comes from and if the request is not sent from localhost it will be rejected.

Or do you mean the database password phpmyadmin uses to authenticate against MySQL? This is independend from phpmyadmin. phpmyadmin is just a GUI to administrate MySQL. By default there is a MySQL Administrator user named root with no password.

im talking abut the password that i have to put here


$db_host = "localhost";
$db_username = "root";
$db_pass = "";
$db_name = "interpage";

This is in my php file

Yeah, this is independent of phpmyadmin.
As already said the user root has no password/empty password by default

I am not able to open xampp admin page to fix the security in ver 5.6.12 when I give localhost/xampp in my browser

Yes. /xampp is not any more part Xampp. There is no more "admin" page, simply run your own sctipts and files.

if you are not satified, uninstall Xampp and use a different tool. And tell bitnami about it.