phpmyadmin - No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it

Question

When I was trying to connect my phpmyadmin on my XAMPP, it gave an error:

#2002 - No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. 

Can any help me to resolve it?

Answer 1

Okay, so i tried all of the answers and none of them worked. If you are using different port than 3306 for MySQL you need to specify it in config.inc.php.

So since i was using port 3308, my solution was adding the following line in config.inc.php:

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['port'] = 3308;

add it right bellow the user, password or extension lines.