phpMyAdmin install error 1045 but everything's right in config.inc.php

[horseatingweeds]

Anyone ever have this problem. I've checked over and over and my config.inc.php file have the right password and username, but when I go to the index.php of phpMyAdmin I get the 1045 Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)

 

This is phpMyAdmin version 2.11.5 with mysql 5. Here is my config:

 

/* Servers configuration */
$i = 0;

/* Server localhost (config:root) [1] */
$i++;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'localhost';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension'] = 'mysqli';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type'] = 'tcp';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['compress'] = false;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = 'xxx';

[horseatingweeds]

Well - I've managed to find the problem. phpMyAdmin wasn't looking in the right place for my config.inc.php. According to the documentation you're supposed to make a folder called config and put the inc in there. BUT, if you look at the index.php file, it's looking in the root of phpMyAdmin folder. I tried changing the file path in index to the config folder but that wasn't working so I just copied the darn inc into the root.

 

Anyone know where to change this path? It doesn't look like it's in the index.php.