Hello, I'm new to using phpMyAdmin and am having trouble logging in. I'm wondering if someone can help me. I have successfully installed phpMyAdmin on my server (linux, has all the requisite stuff needed to run everything) but i get this error: #1045 - Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES) (also this one: Cannot load mcrypt extension. Please check your PHP configuration.) i tried the documented suggestion: $cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root'; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = 'cbb74bc'; // use here your password $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config' by putting in my own password with root as the login and got same error. also tried $cfg['Servers'][$i]['nopassword'] and generating a script using phpMyAdmin/setup/ which also didn't allow login. i created a "config" folder under phpMyAdmin and dropped the config.inc.php into that, and also dropped it into /setup/frames/ with the various attempts and that didn't work either does anyone know how to fix? thanks!