Installing PHP Myadmin

[techhead100k]

In the "config.inc.php3" file there are 3 areas for writing "user, url, host, port, password, etc". The first area is fefferent from the last two, but refers to the same information. The Two last of these areas appear to be duplicates and have identical information. Are they all to be filled? I am confused as to why there are duplicates in the files.

The following is the areas copied out of the file that I am talking about:
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$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'localhost'; // MySQL hostname
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['port'] = ''; // MySQL port - leave blank for default port
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['socket'] = ''; // Path to the socket - leave blank for default socket
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type'] = 'tcp'; // How to connect to MySQL server ('tcp' or 'socket')
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['compress'] = FALSE; // Use compressed protocol for the MySQL connection
// (requires PHP >= 4.3.0)
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controluser'] = ''; // MySQL control user settings
// (this user must have read-only
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controlpass'] = ''; // access to the "mysql/user"
// and "mysql/db" tables)
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config'; // Authentication method (config, http or cookie based)?
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root'; // MySQL user
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = ''; // MySQL password (only needed
// with 'config' auth_type)
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['only_db'] = ''; // If set to a db-name, only
// this db is displayed
// at left frame
// It may also be an array
// of db-names
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['verbose'] = ''; // Verbose name for this host - leave blank to show the hostname

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pmadb'] = ''; // Database used for Relation, Bookmark and PDF Features
// - leave blank for no support
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['bookmarktable'] = ''; // Bookmark table - leave blank for no bookmark support
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['relation'] = ''; // table to describe the relation between links (see doc)
// - leave blank for no relation-links support
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_info'] = ''; // table to describe the display fields
// - leave blank for no display fields support
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_coords'] = ''; // table to describe the tables position for the PDF
// schema - leave blank for no PDF schema support
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pdf_pages'] = ''; // table to describe pages of relationpdf
// - leave blank if you don't want to use this
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['column_comments'] // table to store columncomments
= ''; // - leave blank if you don't want to use this
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowDeny']['order'] // Host authentication order, leave blank to not use
= '';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowDeny']['rules'] // Host authentication rules, leave blank for defaults
= array();


$i++;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = '';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['port'] = '';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['socket'] = '';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type'] = 'tcp';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['compress'] = FALSE;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controluser'] = '';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controlpass'] = '';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = '';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['only_db'] = '';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['verbose'] = '';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pmadb'] = '';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['bookmarktable'] = '';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['relation'] = '';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_info'] = '';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_coords'] = '';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pdf_pages'] = '';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['column_comments'] = '';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowDeny']['order']
= '';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowDeny']['rules']
= array();

$i++;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = '';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['port'] = '';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['socket'] = '';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type'] = 'tcp';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['compress'] = FALSE;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controluser'] = '';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controlpass'] = '';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = '';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['only_db'] = '';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['verbose'] = '';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pmadb'] = '';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['bookmarktable'] = '';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['relation'] = '';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_info'] = '';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_coords'] = '';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pdf_pages'] = '';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['column_comments'] = '';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowDeny']['order']
= '';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowDeny']['rules']
= array();

 

[DRJ478]

You might notice the

$i++;

You can specify multiple servers, usernames, passwords as defaults. The notation looks similar, since $i has been incremented the key in the array $cfg['Servers'] is different.

It is indicated in the config.inc.php which is the default server.