phpmyadmin is working fine but I can't find config.inc.php file?

Question

This is weird

I have phpmyadmin 4.2.5 installed on my Windows 7 machine, it currently is working fine and located in localhost/phpmyadmin

I can view, edit, create databases, tables, etc.

Now I wanted to change some settings and so I looked for the config.inc.php file in the phpmyadmin directory but it's not there?

I have a config.sample.inc.php but obviously it's just a sample

I did a search and the only config.inc.php file is in the /setup/frames/ folder which is clearly not the main config file.

So where is it? I installed phpmyadmin last month and I think I just copied it to my htdocs folder, nothing special, but I can't remember if I did something different.

Answer 1

The config.inc.php file is not required, and only needed for custom configurations

phpmyadmin will first refer to ./libraries/config.default.php to retrieve the default values.

If for some reason you need to modify the default values, and the ./config.inc.php file doesn't exist, you will need to create one as per the Installation documentation.

You will also need to configure pmadb for some of phpmyadmin's special features such as bookmarks.

Answer 2

Initially this file is not present. After Restart XAMPP/WAMP, it is created.

Go to path c:\xamp\phpmyadmin.In that folder config.inc.php file would be present.