PMA Database … not OK in phpMyAdmin upgrade

Question

I have just been wrangling with phpMyAdmin and MySQL server on my Win8 PC IIS localhost (there was no connection between these, which I think was due to MySQL service not st

Answer 1

There are a few google links on this same issue that I have followed that have helped me fix this (I should have spent more time googling before posting!). So to solve the problem I needed to create a phpmyadmin database and import create_tables.sql and assign a new user with full privileges and then uncomment the config.inc.php file at:

/* User used to manipulate with storage */ $cfg['Servers'][$i]['controlhost'] = ''; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['controluser'] = 'phpmyadmin';

and uncomment lines below

/* Storage database and tables */ $cfg['Servers'][$i]['pmadb'] = 'phpmyadmin';

I also needed to add some lines from the new version config.sample.inc There was a good link describing this I wanted to save but I had to clear my browser cache to reload localhost/phpMyAdmin and in doing so I lost my history & that link!

I know this explanation is not exactly described but I hope it may help anyone else who gets a similar issue after updating phpMyAdmin. I'm still not sure what all these features do but it is all fixed now, thanks!