Installing PhpMyAdmin

• Extract the phpMyAdmin-2.3.3pl1-php.zip file to E:\Inet\WWW (Pay attention to the WWW folder!).
• Rename the folder to phpmyadmin.
• Within the phpmyadmin folder you will find a config.inc.php file.
  Open it with a text editor.
• Find this on line 42:
  $cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = ''
  With in the '' place the password you specified for winmysqladmin.
  Save and Exit.
• Now, to see whether both MySQL and PhpMyAdmin are working... load up the index.php file at the location where you installed PhpMyAdmin. If you followed me throughly, it should be here: http://localhost/phpmyadmin/index.php
• If you see the welcome message from phpmyadmin (that says:
  Welcome to phpMyAdmin 2.3.3pl1
  MySQL 3.23.54-nt running on localhost as root@localhost ) then you are all done.
• From the phpmyadmin screen, you create databases on a web interface instead of the tedious command line interface. You will also use phpmyadmin to add users to your databases. It is a valuable tool and really compliments the connectivity of PHP and MySQL.

So... all done. You need nothing more if you want to go with Php and MySQL. But we do want more than just the two. The next step will show you how to install and configure Perl, so that you can run cgi scripts from your server (like MovableType).

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