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how do I install phpmyadmin on windows server 2012 from scratch?? I dont even know where to begin this. I tried but it didn't work out. What else do I need to install in order to make this work? I do have PHP installed and working. But aside from that, what else do I need? Can someone please help??

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  • Is this for a production web server?
    – Kinnectus
    Jan 6, 2016 at 15:30
  • On what web server software did you install PHP for? Microsoft IIS? Apache? nginx? lighttpd?
    – shrmn
    Feb 8, 2016 at 12:46

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maybe I will forget something, but that's not a "easy-step-by-step-procedure"

STEP 1: you'll need a webserver!

  • First of all, Install IIS on your server using "Server Manager" (or apache, if you prefer)
  • Second (or maybe first?) get/install a MySQL server to administer
  • configure IIS. Well, that's quite complicate to explain here!
  • Test IIS (http:// localhost should show you a welcome screen)

STEP 2: PHP!

  • Download the last version of PHP (5.x) from here: http://windows.php.net/download/#php-5.5
  • Install PHP on IIS (as CGI, if you don't know the difference between the various possibilities)
  • Test PHP creating a phpinfo() page

STEP 3: PhpMyAdmin

  • Download it from here: http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/downloads.php
  • extract the archive in the wwwroot folder (or wherever you want to create your website or folder); in a subfolder maybe? let's call that subfolder "phpma"
  • in this "phpma" folder, create a config folder
  • copy the config.sample.inc.php file from "phpma" to the "config" folder and rename it to "config.inc.php"
  • give the WRITE permission on this file to the user that will execute IIS
  • open your webbrowser to http:// server/phpma/setup/
  • follow the procedure
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  • Is there a step missing here? How would IIS know where to point http://server/phpma to? Do we need to do something in IIS first before heading to that URL?
    – J86
    Feb 12, 2016 at 13:10
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    No, if you create the phpma folder in the iis root folder; (Default: c:\ìnetpub\wwwroot)
    – AndreaCi
    Feb 14, 2016 at 14:18

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