phpMyAdmin setup

Enter server connection parameters.

Verbose name of this server A user-friendly description of this server. Leave blank to display the hostname instead.
Server hostname Hostname where MySQL server is running.
Server port Port on which MySQL server is listening, leave empty for default.
Server socket Socket on which MySQL server is listening, leave empty for default.
Use SSL Enable SSL for connection to MySQL server.
Compress connection Compress connection to MySQL server.

Authentication settings.

Authentication type Authentication method to use.	confighttpsignoncookie
Config authentication
User for config auth Leave empty if not using config auth.
Password for config auth Leave empty if not using config auth.
HTTP authentication
HTTP Realm HTTP Basic Auth Realm name to display when doing HTTP Auth.
Signon authentication
Signon session name See authentication types for an example.
Signon URL
Logout URL

Advanced server configuration, do not change these options unless you know what they are for.

Show only listed databases You can use MySQL wildcard characters (% and _), escape them if you want to use their literal instances, i.e. use 'my\_db' and not 'my_db'.
Hide databases Hide databases matching regular expression (PCRE).
Allow root login
Allow logins without a password
Disable use of INFORMATION_SCHEMA More information on phpMyAdmin issue tracker and MySQL Bugs
Host authorization order Leave blank if not used.	deny,allowallow,denyexplicit
Host authorization rules Leave blank for defaults.
Session timezone Sets the effective timezone; possibly different than the one from your database server

Configure phpMyAdmin configuration storage to gain access to additional features, see phpMyAdmin configuration storage in documentation.

Database name Database used for relations, bookmarks, and PDF features. See pmadb for complete information. Leave blank for no support. Suggested: phpmyadmin.
Control host An alternate host to hold the configuration storage; leave blank to use the already defined host.
Control port An alternate port to connect to the host that holds the configuration storage; leave blank to use the default port, or the already defined port, if the controlhost equals host.
Control user A special MySQL user configured with limited permissions, more information available on documentation.
Control user password
Bookmark table Leave blank for no bookmark support, suggested: pma__bookmark
Relation table Leave blank for no relation-links support, suggested: pma__relation.
User preferences storage table Leave blank for no user preferences storage in database, suggested: pma__userconfig.
Users table Both this table and the user groups table are required to enable the configurable menus feature; leaving either one of them blank will disable this feature, suggested: pma__users.
User groups table Both this table and the users table are required to enable the configurable menus feature; leaving either one of them blank will disable this feature, suggested: pma__usergroups.
Hidden navigation items table Leave blank to disable the feature to hide and show navigation items, suggested: pma__navigationhiding.
Display columns table Table to describe the display columns, leave blank for no support; suggested: pma__table_info.
Column information table Leave blank for no column comments/media types, suggested: pma__column_info.
SQL query history table Leave blank for no SQL query history support, suggested: pma__history.
Recently used table Leave blank for no "persistent" recently used tables across sessions, suggested: pma__recent.
Favorites table Leave blank for no "persistent" favorite tables across sessions, suggested: pma__favorite.
UI preferences table Leave blank for no "persistent" tables' UI preferences across sessions, suggested: pma__table_uiprefs.
SQL query tracking table Leave blank for no SQL query tracking support, suggested: pma__tracking.
Designer and PDF schema: table coordinates Leave blank for no PDF schema support, suggested: pma__table_coords.
PDF schema: pages table Leave blank for no PDF schema support, suggested: pma__pdf_pages.
QBE saved searches table Leave blank for no QBE saved searches support, suggested: pma__savedsearches.
Central columns table Leave blank for no central columns support, suggested: pma__central_columns.
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Export templates table Leave blank for no export template support, suggested: pma__export_templates.
Maximal number of table preferences to store Limits number of table preferences which are stored in database, the oldest records are automatically removed.

Tracking of changes made in database. Requires the phpMyAdmin configuration storage.

Automatically create versions Whether the tracking mechanism creates versions for tables and views automatically.
Statements to track Defines the list of statements the auto-creation uses for new versions.
Add DROP VIEW Whether a DROP VIEW IF EXISTS statement will be added as first line to the log when creating a view.
Add DROP TABLE Whether a DROP TABLE IF EXISTS statement will be added as first line to the log when creating a table.
Add DROP DATABASE Whether a DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS statement will be added as first line to the log when creating a database.