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It's not absolutely necessary that we create this configuration directory, since we
could download to our client machine the
config.inc.php
file produced by the
setup procedure, then upload it to phpMyAdmin in the first-level directory via the
same mechanism (say FTP) that we used to upload phpMyAdmin itself. However,
we'll nonetheless create this directory.
The principle here is that the web server must be able to write to this directory. There
is more than one way to achieve this. Here is one that would work on a Linux server,
assuming that the installation is done by user
marc
and that the web server is
not
running under the group
users
:
cd phpMyAdmin
mkdir config
chown marc.users config
chmod o+rwx config
Having done that, we refresh the page in our browser and we see:
A single copy of phpMyAdmin can be used to manage many MySQL servers.
We will now define parameters describing our first MySQL server. In the
Servers
section, we click
Add
and the following screen is shown:
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