PHPMYADMIN Setup and config

[Paul Herrmann]

Hi,
I am new to this forum and to PHP. I have set up a local Apache server with MYSQL and PHP and in an attemp to use the mysqldump function came accross PHPMyAdmin. A simple download and placed a folder in htdocs, made a config folder and (successfully) ran setup.php.

Problem 1 - Using setup.php, none of the buttons appears to do anything
Problem 2 - While it did produce a config.inc.php file, this had no content

Tried to then manually setup the config.inc.php file trying numerous different options for auth_type, including password or not, including port or not, adding a line for extension= mysqli etc but every time I try to run it, all I get is

MySQL said:

#1045 - Access denied for user 'root'@'localho st' (using password: NO)

I feel sure that there is some setting that needs to change either in PHP or Apache but all my searching cannot tell me what it is.

I'd appreciate your help

[ronverdonk]

The are actually 2 config files in the root of the phpMyAdmin folder.

1 config.inc.php which is (almost) empty
2. config.sample.i nc.php which you must adapt to your setup

The sample config must, after adaptation, be stored as 'config.inc.php ' in the 'config' subdirectory. All directives are explained in Documentation.h tml and on phpMyAdmin wiki at http://wiki.cihar.com


I will include the sample config I have, so you can see what is looks like [php]
<?php

/* $Id: config.sample.i nc.php,v 2.1.2.2 2006/08/28 08:14:14 nijel Exp $ */
// vim: expandtab sw=4 ts=4 sts=4:

/**
* phpMyAdmin sample configuration, you can use it as base for
* manual configuration. For easier setup you can use scripts/setup.php
*
* All directives are explained in Documentation.h tml and on phpMyAdmin
* wiki <http://wiki.cihar.com> .
*/
/*
* This is needed for cookie based authentication to encrypt password in
* cookie
*/
$cfg['blowfish_secre t'] = '0a2bc3f68d'; /* YOU MUST FILL IN THIS FOR COOKIE AUTH! */
/*
* Servers configuration
*/
$i = 0;
/*
* First server
*/
$i++;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'xxx'; // use here your userid
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = 'yyy'; // use here your password
/* Authentication type */
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'cookie';
/* Server parameters */
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'localhost';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type'] = 'tcp';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['compress'] = false;
/* Select mysqli if your server has it */
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension'] = 'mysql';
/* User for advanced features */
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controluser'] = 'xxx'; // use here your controlling userid
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controlpass'] = 'yyy'; // use here password of previous userid
/* Advanced phpMyAdmin features */
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pmadb'] = 'phpmyadmin';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['bookmarktable'] = 'pma_bookmark';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['relation'] = 'pma_relation';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_info'] = 'pma_table_info ';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_coords'] = 'pma_table_coor ds';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pdf_pages'] = 'pma_pdf_pages' ;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['column_info'] = 'pma_column_inf o';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['history'] = 'pma_history';
/*
* End of servers configuration
*/
/*
* Directories for saving/loading files from server
*/
$cfg['UploadDir'] = '';
$cfg['SaveDir'] = '';
?>[/php]

Ronald :cool:

[Paul Herrmann]

Thanks for your help! With a bit of additional fiddling I managed to get it working.

Cheers

[ronverdonk]

You are welcome! See you again.

Ronald :cool:

[drewan]

Hi Paul,

I am new to phpMyAdmin, and I encounter the exact same problem you did with the setup.php, the page loaded with all the buttons except none of them seems to work even i click on it hundrad times. How could I fix this problem?

Thanks,

Drew