Installing phpMyAdmin - Mastering phpMyAdmin 2.8 for Effective MySQL Management - page 14

To access the setup script, we can click on the link available in the message we
received previously, which points to http://www.mydomain.com/phpmyadmin/
scripts/setup.php . Here is what appears on the initial execution:

There are two warnings here. We will first deal with the second one - Not secure
connection . This message appears if we are accessing the web server over HTTP, an
insecure protocol. Since we are possibly going to input confidential information like
the user name and password in the setup phase, it's recommended to communicate
over HTTPS at least for this phase. HTTPS uses SSL(Secure Socket Layer) to encrypt
the communication and make eavesdropping impossible on the line. If our web
server supports HTTPS, we can simply follow the proposed link which will restart
the setup process, this time over HTTPS. Our example supposes we do so.

The first warning tells us that phpMyAdmin did not find a writable directory with
the name config and this is normal since it was not present in the downloaded kit.
Since the directory is not yet there, we observe that the Save and Load buttons in the
interface are grey. In this config directory we can:

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Save the working version of the configuration file during the setup process
Load a previously prepared config.inc.php file