phpMyAdmin - Installation  Preface:    phpMyAdmin can administer a whole MySQL-server (needs a super-user)     but also a single database. To accomplish the latter you'll need    a properly set up MySQL-user who can read/write only the desired    database. It's up to you to look up the appropiate part in the     MySQL manual.  Quick Install:    [1] Untar the distribution (be sure to untar the subdirectories)        tar xvf phpMyAdmin_x.x.x.tar    [2] Open the file config.inc.php3 in your favourite editor and change        the values for host, user and password to fit your environment.        Have a lok at Documentation.html for an explanation of all values.    [3] It is recommended that you protect the directory in which        you installed phpMyAdmin (unless it's on a closed intranet),         for example with HTTP-AUTH (in a .htaccess-file).     [4] Open the file <www.your-host.com>/<your-install-dir>/index.php3        in your browser. phpMyAdmin should now display a welcome screen         and your databases.  Installation notes:  + Be sure to protect the phpMyAdmin-directory. By default, it is not     protected in any way! It shouldn't be readable by anyone and     especially not by search-engines. Although I've added a "nofollow"     directive on every page, there may be search-engines that don't     care about that and still follow the links on the page.     Think of AltaVista following a link named "Drop Database"    You can get an overview of Apache's authentification methods at    http://www.apacheweek.com/features/userauth . Another tutorial is at    http://deepthought.texsci.edu/protected_dirs.html  + PHP3 should be configured to have magic_quotes=on. In the module    version of PHP3 this can also be set on a per-directory base with     php3_magic_quotes_gpc on in an .htaccess file or in your Apache's    access.conf.  + If you don't use the extension ".php3" for your scripts, you can use    the bundled script "extchg.sh" to modify phpMyAdmin (or any other script)    to work with a different extension. Beware though, that currently changing     the extension from .html to something other won't work (it'd change all     "string".htmlspecialchars() constructs).