How to setup phpMyAdmin to prompt for login and password

January 15, 2015   /   by Marco  / Categories :  Technology, Websites
phpMyAdmin login

By default, phpMyAdmin on WAMP automatically logs in using the root user account. To make this more secure you it is best to use an authentication method to prompt for the username and password. To do this follow these steps:

Edit the config.inc.php file located in C:\wamp\apps/phpmyadmin3.5.1

Look for the line that has auth type and change it the value from config to http as shown below

phpMyAdmin authentication

Save the file and then restart WAMP services

Try going to your phpmyadmin page by browsing to http://localhost/phpmyadmin

You will be prompted to enter a username and password as shown below

phpMyAdmin login

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