Connection for controluser as defined in your configuration failed in PHPMyadmin.

Sounds like your config details in phpMyadmin/config.inc.php may be incorrect.

This can occurs if you have another MySQL instance installed and the username and the password that you use in this config are different. You have to change the username and the password in the above file to match.

/* Authentication type and info */
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root'; // << Change this to your values
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = 'root';  // << Change this to your values
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension'] = 'mysql';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] = true;
$cfg['Lang'] = '';