The MAMP howto doesn't match the sample phpMyAdmin config file

[steve404@…]

Hello,

I'm following instructions at the below link to setup Apache, MySQL and PHP. wiki:howto/MAMP

At the end of the page it describes how to setup phpMyAdmin:

Finally, you need to set up the phpMyAdmin configuration to access mySQL. First, set up the config file:

cd /opt/local/www/phpmyadmin/
cp config.sample.inc.php config.inc.php
This will create a file config.inc.php in the phpMyAdmin folder. Edit that file, and locate the lines:

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type']     = 'config';    // Authentication method (config, http or cookie based)?
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user']          = 'root';      // MySQL user
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password']      = '';          // MySQL password (only needed
                                                    // with 'config' auth_type)
Where ' ' is an empty password; fill it with your MySQL root password. You can either change the 'auth_type' from 'config' to 'cookie' or 'httpd', or alternatively provide the password you selected for the root user in the 'password' option.

I'm able to create file config.inc.php, however when I search for the section to define the password, I don't have that section of code.

How do I set the password? Do I just add those 3 or 4 lines of code?

-Steve

[alakazam@…]

r57854 updates the phpMyAdmin port so that it correctly creates the configuration file. You now need to edit ${prefix}/etc/phpmyadmin.inc.php to configure phpMyAdmin.

The sample configuration file however does not seem to match the expectations of the MAMP with macports howto page, which should be updated accordingly.

I'm cc-ing ryandesign as he's done most of the recent work on this guide, so I'd like his opinion on these changes and the modifications to bring to the howto page.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

I've worked on the ports that comprise the MAMP stack, but the MAMP guide in the wiki was created by someone else. I read through it recently and made a lot of adjustments for clarity and changes that had occurred in the MAMP ports, but that's about it. I haven't used phpMyAdmin in years so I don't know how it's changed lately.

One thought I had was that the MAMP guide tells the user to create the file httpd-phpmyadmin.conf with a certain contents. I would suggest that it should instead be the phpMyAdmin port's responsibility to do that.

[raimue (Rainer Müller)]

The wiki page does not mention phpmyadmin anymore, closing.