config.inc.php全部内容如下：（以phpmyadmin2.5.4为例,其他版本类似）


/* $Id: config.inc.php,v 1.204.2.1 2003/10/10 14:24:24 nijel Exp $ */
// vim: expandtab sw=4 ts=4 sts=4:

/**
* phpMyAdmin Configuration File
*
* All directives are explained in Documentation.html
*/


/**
* Sets the php error reporting - Please do not change this line!
*/
if (!isset($old_error_reporting)) {
error_reporting(E_ALL);
@ini_set('display_errors', '1');
}


/**
* Your phpMyAdmin url
*
* Complete the variable below with the full url ie
* http://www.your_web.net/path_to_your_phpMyAdmin_directory/
*
* It must contain characters that are valid for a URL, and the path is
* case sensitive on some Web servers, for example Unix-based servers.
*
* In most cases you can leave this variable empty, as the correct value
* will be detected automatically. However, we recommend that you do
* test to see that the auto-detection code works in your system. A good
* test is to browse a table, then edit a row and save it. There will be
* an error message if phpMyAdmin cannot auto-detect the correct value.
*
* If the auto-detection code does work properly, you can set to TRUE the
* $cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri_DisableWarning'] variable below.
*/
$cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri'] = '';-----这里设置你的phpmyadmin的URL，如：http://localhost/phpmyadmin/


/**
* Disable the default warning about $cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri'] not being set
* You should use this if and ONLY if the PmaAbsoluteUri auto-detection
* works perfectly.
*/
$cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri_DisableWarning'] = FALSE;

/**
* Disable the default warning that is displayed on the DB Details Structure page if
* any of the required Tables for the relationfeatures could not be found
*/
$cfg['PmaNoRelation_DisableWarning'] = FALSE;

/**
* The 'cookie' auth_type uses blowfish algorithm to encrypt the password. If
* at least one server configuration uses 'cookie' auth_type, enter here a
* passphrase that will be used by blowfish.
$cfg['blowfish_secret'] = '';-----设定好root密码后这里也要填写

/**
* Server(s) configuration
*/
$i = 0;
// The $cfg['Servers'] array starts with $cfg['Servers'][1]. Do not use $cfg['Servers'][0].
// You can disable a server config entry by setting host to ''.
$i++;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'localhost'; // MySQL hostname or IP address----这里可以设定远程MySQL服务器IP地址

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['port'] = ''; // MySQL port - leave blank for default port-----默认为3306

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['socket'] = ''; // Path to the socket - leave blank for default socket

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type'] = 'tcp'; // How to connect to MySQL server ('tcp' or 'socket')-----连接MySQL服务器的方式

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['compress'] = FALSE; // Use compressed protocol for the MySQL connection
// (requires PHP >= 4.3.0)-----是否使用压缩协议，PHP版本须>= 4.3.0

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controluser'] = ''; // MySQL control user settings
// (this user must have read-only
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controlpass'] = ''; // access to the "mysql/user"
// and "mysql/db" tables)-----MySQL控制用户设定，该用户只对mysql数据库下的user和db表有完全权限

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config';
// Authentication method (config, http or cookie based)?-----如果PHP安装模式为Apache，可以使用http和cookie；如果PHP安装模式为CGI，可以使用cookie；默认为config，是不安全的，不推荐。

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root'; // MySQL user-----MySQL连接用户

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = '';
// MySQL password (only needed with 'config' auth_type)-----MySQL连接密码，建议在安装好PHP和MySQL后，先用phpmyadmin设定root密码，然后在这里填写

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['only_db'] = ''; // If set to a db-name, only
// this db is displayed
// at left frame
// It may also be an array
// of db-names-----如果在这里设定一个数据库的名字，那么登陆后框架左边将只显示这个数据库

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['verbose'] = ''; // Verbose name for this host - leave blank to show the hostname

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pmadb'] = ''; // Database used for Relation, Bookmark and PDF Features
// (see scripts/create_tables.sql)
// - leave blank for no support
// DEFAULT: 'phpmyadmin'
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['bookmarktable'] = ''; // Bookmark table
// - leave blank for no bookmark support
// DEFAULT: 'pma_bookmark'
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['relation'] = ''; // table to describe the relation between links (see doc)
// - leave blank for no relation-links support