Installing phpMyAdmin - Mastering phpMyAdmin 2.8 for Effective MySQL Management - page 17

We then click Add , and we get the New server added message. Now our setup
process knows about one MySQL server, and there are sections of the interface that
enable us to Edit or Delete these server settings:

We can have a look at the generated configuration lines by using the Coniguration/
Display button—then we can analyze these parameters using the explanations given
in The config.inc.php File section later in this chapter.

At this point, this configuration is still just in memory, so we need to save it.
This is done via the Configuration/Save button. It saves config.inc.php in the
special config directory we created previously. This is a directory strictly used for
configuration purposes.

The last step is to move config.inc.php from the config directory to the top-
level directory - the one that contains index.php . This can be done via FTP or by
commands such as

cd config
mv config.inc.php ..

As a security measure, it's recommended to change the
permission on the config directory - for example, with
the chmod o-rwx config command. This is to block any
non-authorized writing in this directory.

Other configuration parameters can be set with these web-based setup pages. To do
so, we would have to:

1. Enable read and write access to the config directory

2. Copy the config.inc.php there

3. Start the web-based setup tool

In order to keep this topic's text lighter, we will only refer to the parameters' textual
values in the following chapters.