Right-click on the file “,” select “Open with…”: Locate the phpMyAdmin directory nested within a directory of the same name). Select “Open with Archive Manager.” In Archive Manager, click on “Extract.” In the next dialog, click on “Extract.” Renaming the phpMyAdmin-x-x-x-x directory, renaming and editing the configuration file Windows In Nautilus, go to the Downloads directory.
#Phpmyadmin config zip file#
The Archive Manager will extract the contents of the phpMyAdmin zip file to a directory in the Downloads directory. In Finder, go to the Downloads directory. If you downloaded the phpMyAdmin zip file with Chrome If you downloaded the phpMyAdmin zip file with Safari, the zip file’s contents will be already be extracted as a directory in the Downloads directory. Select “Extract All.” In the next dialog, click “Extract.” MacOS If you downloaded the phpMyAdmin zip file with Safari In File Explorer, right-click on the phpMyAdmin zip file. Go to the file manager for your operating system (Windows File Explorer, MacOS Finder, Linux Nautilus).
#Phpmyadmin config how to#
(Reminder: there are detailed examples in Chapter 8: Installing and configuring WordPress to create a website that show how to extract the contents of a zip file for each operating system.)
Downloading the phpMyAdmin zip fileĬlick on the link “Download x.x.x” (where “x.x.x” represents the current version number): Extracting the phpMyAdmin zip file
You will need to copy the text in the line above to the clipboard then paste it into the file in one of the steps below. Select the text in the line under “to,” right-click (or command-click on MacOS), then select “Copy”: PhpMyAdmin uses an encryption cipher called “blowfish.” We need to generate a blowfish secret passphrase to customize the phpMyAdmin configuration file. Systemctl restart apache2 Generating a blowfish secret passphrase (blowfish_secret)
#Phpmyadmin config install#
Enter the commands: apt install php-xml php-mbstring Use an SSH terminal program to connect to the Ubuntu Linux cloud server you created in Chapter 3: Buying an Ubuntu Linux cloud server from Digital Ocean. Notice that to maintain compatibility with existing software, the command to invoke MariaDB on the command line is “mysql.” Installing the php-xml and php-mbstring libraries When this document refers to “MySQL,” it is actually referring to the MariaDB descendant of the MySQL database engine, made possible by the terms of the GPLv2 open source software license. The open source code was legally “forked” into a project called MariaDB. A note re MySQL and MariaDBĪ few years ago, the company that owned MySQL was purchased by Oracle. This post assumes that you have performed the steps described in Chapter 8: Installing and configuring WordPress to create a website. In this post, we install and configure phpMyAdmin to manage MySQL databases. Web presence step by step is a series of posts that show you to how to build a web presence. Next step: Chapter 10: Integrating Google Site Kit with WordPress to view Google Analytics and Google Search Console visitor statistics Previous step: Chapter 8: Installing and configuring WordPress to create a website