As promised in Chapter 7, we will now install phpMyAdmin to work with our Lighttpd. We assume that MySQL is already installed (if not, refer to Chapter 3 for details on installation; also, for PHP setup, see the previous section on Wordpress). Apart from that, phpMyAdmin benefits from two optional PHP extensions.
|
Extension Name |
Description |
Usage in phpMyAdmin |
|---|---|---|
|
GD2 |
Binds the GD2 graphics library to PHP |
Showing inline JPEGs |
|
Mcrypt |
Cryptographic library, very advisable |
Fast cookie hashing |
With that out of the way, let's get phpMyAdmin up and running. If our system has a package manager, we may look if it has a phpMyAdmin package. Otherwise, http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/downloads.php has the goods.
We get to choose between English and an International language, and between a stable version and beta version in multiple compressed formats. As far as I can tell, the beta is stable enough. But for this example, we will stick with the stable version, which at the time of...