title: phpmyadmin not allowing to create database despite changing $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] to config from cookie
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  <p>Some more information about my localhost server:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Server: Localhost via UNIX socket
  Server type: MySQL
  Server version: 5.7.24-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 - (Ubuntu)
  Protocol version: 10
  User: phpmyadmin@localhost
  Server charset: UTF-8 Unicode (utf8)
  
  
   Apache/2.4.29 (Ubuntu)
  Database client version: libmysql - mysqlnd 5.0.12-dev - 20150407 - $Id: 38fea24f2847fa7519001be390c98ae0acafe387 $
  PHP extension: mysqliDocumentation curlDocumentation mbstringDocumentation
  PHP version: 7.2.10-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
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  <p>Although i tried reinstalling and even change $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'cookie'; to $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config';</p>