Getting Started with phpMyAdmin - Mastering phpMyAdmin 3.4 for Effective MySQL Management - page 3

Project documentation
Further information about phpMyAdmin is available on the home site's
documentati on page, located at http://www.phpmyadmin.ne t/home_page/docs.
php . Moreover, the development team, helped by the community, maintains a wiki
at http://wiki.phpmyadmin.net .
Installing phpMyAdmin
It's time to install the product and to configure it minimally for first-time use.
Our reason for installing phpMyAdmin could be one of the following:
• Our host provider did not install a central copy
• Our provider installed it but the version installed is not current
• We are working directly on our enterprise's web server
Note that we can dispense with the phpMyAdmin installation step, if we choose
instead to install one of the AMP products that usually include phpMyAdmin as part
of their offering. Further details are available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
List_of_AMP_packages .
Required information
Some host providers offer an integrated web panel where we can manage accounts,
including MySQL accounts, and also a file manager that can be used to upload
web content. Depending on this, the mechanism we use to transfer phpMyAdmin
source files to our web space may vary. We will need some of the following specific
information before starting the installation:
• The web server's name or address. Here, we will assume it to be
www.mydomain.com .
• Our web server's account information (username, password). This
information will be used either for FTP or SFTP transfer, SSH login, or web
control panel login.
• The MySQL server's name or IP address. If this information is not available,
a good alternate choice is localhost , which means that the MySQL server
is located on the same machine as the web server. We will assume this to be
localhost .
• Our MySQL server's account information (username, password).