Cannot start phpMyAdmin 1

[yigalm]

Hi

I am trying to start phpMyAdmin, but so far witout success.

I unzipped it into a directory(phpMyAdmin) inside my root directory(

http://wwwroot)

on Win XP Pro.

I changed the variable in the configuration file to point to this directory (

http://localhost/phpMyAdmin/).

I never created any usernames or passwords on the MySQL server, so I left the dafaults intact (user: root, password: '').

Then I pointed my browser to

http://localhost/phpMyAdmin/index.php

and it just displayed the contents of the file as text, and not as the promised welcome screen.

What am I doing wrong?

Thank you!

 

[sleipnir214]

You haven't informed your web server that it should treat PHP files as scripts.

What web server are you using? ______________________________________________________________________
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[yigalm]

I installed (I think) IIS from Win XP CD. It doesn't mention anything about informing it in the phpMyAdmin documentation...

 

[sleipnir214]

phpMyAdmin is a set of PHP scripts to manage MySQL. Have you performed all the steps in installing PHP with IIS? The instructions here:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.iis.php

The problem is the IIS does not know that PHP is a scripting language. It thinks that PHP is just a file you pass to the web client, like HTML. ______________________________________________________________________
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[yigalm]

It is funny, but I was trying to play with PHP without actually installing PHP itself. I was just thinking in terms of ASP, where nothing extra had to be installed, and the server knew automatically what to do with the script.

Now I downloaded and installed PHP installer from php.net. Trying to browsed again to

http://localhost/phpMyAdmin/index.php

I receive one error and a bunch of warnings and notices.
The error says: "Parse error: parse error, unexpected ':' in c:\inetpub\

http://wwwroot\phpMyAdmin\config.inc.php

on line 36", where on line 36 in the script I have: "$cfgPmaAbsoluteUri =

http://localhost/phpMyAdmin/;".

Is there a problem with the URL or something? Do I still have to follow instructions on installing PHP for IIS, even after I run the PHP installer?

Thanx!

 

[sleipnir214]

Yeah, actually having PHP installed does help.

PHP is running now. You're getting error messages, which actually is a good thing, compared to before.

I think the line should read:

$cfgPmaAbsoluteUri = "

http://localhost/phpMyAdmin/

"; ______________________________________________________________________
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[yigalm]

You were right. It works now. Thanks a lot!!