Trinity, phpMyAdmin is run through a browser, so you have to put it someplace your web server can get to it (ie. c:\apache\htdocs\phpMyAdmin\)

Try sticking it in your htdocs folder and browsing to http://localhost/phpMyAdmin/

Hope that helps.

For those who tried all the above, but still have no succes:

Open httpd.conf (the Apache configuration file) in a text editor and add the following line:


Replace 'C:/php' with the path to the directory where your php.ini file is residing.

Save the file and restart Apache.

This did the trick for me.

What gave me some headache was the fact that I needed to add to all paths a trailing slash in contrary to the examples! I needed that for PHPIniDir in the Apache httpd.conf files as well as in the php.ini file with the extension_dir.

Once I added the trailing slash, the installation worked for me.

Andreas

I am having same problem, just want to try your last advice. My question is where do you put this line in apache2 httpd.conf.

Much appreciated. Thanks.

I added the line starting with PHPIniDir after my last line of LoadModule, which was the one that is loadeing the php5_module.

Hope that helps.

Andreas

wow! after spending days on it the last advice on entering
PHPIniDir "C:/php" seem to have done the trick. I can finally see the username/password screen and then see phpmyadmin index page. Thank you.

k guys you don't need to move anything around and what not, just download the full zip which has the extensions for mysql from php.net, then download the windows installer and let it overwrite and configure it's shite, don't keep your exisiting php.ini file, but rather find the new one and simply replace ';extension=php_mysql.dll' with 'extension=ext/php_mysql.dll' dropping the ; and adding the ext to get to php_msql.dll in the ext folder for php 5. Baaaaazing :eek:

hi all ..
Just wanna ask what is the different with uncommented and commented.

What is just did for the configuration is just as displayed in this site
http://www.devside.net/web/server/windows/phpmyadmin

But what you hve to do is beware of the uncommented extension althought i not so sure what is that .. (uncommented == removing the ; )

Then everything is resolve..

hope you guys can tell me what is it ..

regards,
Billy

thanks again guys .

The difference between an uncommented and commented line is that one is commented and the other is not! :eek: A "commented" line will be ignored by the processor -- comments only exist for the human reader. In many configuration files, lines that you can optionally enable will be commented out. This makes it easy for you to enable the line by simply removing the comment character at the beginning of the line.

The php.ini file contains several lines that reference extensions that you can optionally enable or disable to fit your requirements. On Windows, these extensions are DLL files (Dynamic Link Libraries). On Linux, they are .so files. In either case, when Apache is started, and it loads PHP as a module, it checks the php.ini file to see which extensions to also load. For example, if you want to work with a MySQL database, you need to enable (uncomment) the mysql.dll extension line. For phpMyAdmin, you'll also want to enable the mbstring.dll extension.

Oh i see .. thanks man .. no wonder we should do the same with PHP when we have to remove the (#) from the module part inorder for us to use the module ...

Thanks man .. that really do help ..

regards,
Billy