Databases Reference
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Also, since phpMyAdmin 2.7.0, we can
automatically
switch users to an HTTPS
connection with this setting:
$cfg['ForceSSL'] = TRUE;
Upgrading phpMyAdmin
Normally, upgrading is just a matter of installing the newer version into a separate
directory and copying the previous version's
config.inc.php
to the new directory.
If the previous version is phpMyAdmin 2.3.0 or older, we cannot copy its
config.inc.php
to the new version because the file format has changed too much.
An upgrade - or first-installation - path that
should not
be
taken is to copy
libraries/config.default.php
to
config.inc.php
, since this default configuration file
is version-specific and is not guaranteed to work for
future versions.
New parameters appear from version to version. They are documented in
Documentation.html
and defined in
libraries/config.default.php
. If
a configuration parameter is not present in
config.inc.php
, its value from
libraries/config.default.php
will be used; so we do not have to include it into
config.inc.php
if the default value suits us.
Special care must be taken to propagate the changes we might have made to the
layout.inc.php
files, depending on the themes used. We may even have to copy
our custom themes subdirectories if we added our own themes to the structure.
Summary
In this chapter we took a look at the common reasons for installing phpMyAdmin,
the steps for downloading it from the main site, basic configuration, and uploading it
to our web server. We learned how to use a single copy of phpMyAdmin to manage
multiple servers and also the usage of authentication types to fulfill the needs of a
users' group while protecting authentication credentials. Securing our phpMyAdmin
installation and upgrading phpMyAdmin were also covered.
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