Can I install the latest version of phpMyAdmin and use it with WampServer?

Question

I have WampServer 2.0 with phpMyAdmin 3.2.0.1. The latest version of phpMyAdmin is 3.3.8.1.

Can I download the latest version of phpMyAdmin and use it with WampServer?

The reason I want to do that is that in phpMyAdmin 3.2.0.1 the relationship lines between tables do not appear in Internet Explorer 8 (even though they do appear in Firefox and Chrome). I want to see if the latest version has that fixed.

Thanks.

UPDATE: The lines show up in compatibility view.

Daviddavida

Answer 1

Can I download the latest version of phpMyAdmin and use it with WampServer?

Sure. You can even install it in a separate directory and have it point at the same database as the other version.

Munch

I succesfully downloaded the latest phpMyAdmin version to C:>wamp>apps, next to the old version, changed C:>wamp>alias>phpmyadmin.conf to point to the new folder. The latest version has the same problem. – Daviddavida

@Daviddavida too bad! I saw a PDF view mentioned, maybe that helps? – Munch

Answer 2

Follow these steps

1. Download the latest version of PHPMyAdmin at http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/downloads.php. Note: If you are running PHP version 5.3 you should download the latest PHPMyAdmin version 3.x, otherwise download the latest PHPMyAdmin version 2.x

2. Go to C:\wamp\apps\phpmyadmin3.2.0.1\ and copy out the config.inc.php file to somewhere safe. You are doing this in case you have a password protected MySQL install or specific MySQL options set you to want to keep.

3. Create folders in C:\wamp\apps\phpmyadmin4.2.5\

4. Copy the contents of the unzipped folder (not the folder) into the C:\wamp\apps\phpmyadmin4.2.5\ directory.

5. Then copy back the config.inc.php into C:\wamp\apps\phpmyadmin4.2.5\ you copied earlier.

6. Go to C:\wamp\alias\phpmyadmin.conf. Change following:

   Alias /phpmyadmin "c:/wamp/apps/phpMyAdmin-3.2.0.1/"
   
   <Directory "c:/wamp/apps/phpMyAdmin-3.2.0.1/">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride all
        Order Deny,Allow
        Deny from all
        Allow from 127.0.0.1
    </Directory>
   

   to:

   Alias /phpmyadmin "c:/wamp/apps/phpmyadmin4.2.5/"
   
   <Directory "c:/wamp/apps/phpmyadmin4.2.5/">
       Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
       AllowOverride all
       Order Deny,Allow
       Deny from all
       Allow from 127.0.0.1
   </Directory>
   

7. Restart wamp and start up PHPMyAdmin in your browser and see if it works.

PHPMyAdmin has been upgraded

Herod

Actually, you should quite Wamp Server completely and start it again. this worked for me rather than restarting services. – Nonego

Answer 3

Absolutely!

I covered in detail how to upgrade phpMyAdmin in WAMP with a series of screenshots in a blog post. Below are the basic steps.

1. Download the most recent stable version of phpMyAdmin.
2. Extract the contents of the download to the apps directory inside your WAMP root, typically c:/wamp/apps.
3. Copy the config.inc.php configuration file from the current version of phpMyAdmin to the new version.
4. Update the phpmyadmin.conf configuration file located in the alias directory, typically c:/wamp/alias. Point the Alias and <Directory> paths to your new phpMyAdmin directory.
5. Update the wampmanager.conf configuration file located in the WAMP root directory.
6. Last but not least, Restart All Services in WAMP (assuming WAMP is running), and login to your upgraded phpMyAdmin.

Cougar

Answer 4

you can update easily
->just open the link download the version you need and run Wampserver homepage

Sacker

Answer 5

Well, phpMyAdmin on my side could not work with PHP version 8 using WampServer. All i had to do is the following steps:

1. Download the latest version of phpMyAdmin here

2. Extract the downloaded archive into .../wamp/apps

3. Copy the ...wamp/apps/phpMyAdmin5.1.1/config.inc.php from the old version of phpMyAdmin and pasted into the newest version I downloaded

4. Change phpMyAdmin path in ...wamp/alias/phpmyadmin.conf to the latest version I downloaded

5. Quit the Wamp Server and start it again

6. Click the Wamp Server icon on the system tray and click phpMyAdmin 5.1.1 or any previous version, you should see phpMyAdmin page in your web browser

That is all I had to do to add a compatible version of phpMyAdmin that would properly work with PHP 8.

Nonego

Answer 6

I'm using Wamp, I know it might be very late, but non of the above solutions worked for me. So I tried to find it myself, and this is the only way it worked (in config/database.php):

'mysql' => [
            'driver' => 'mysql',
            'dump' => env('APP_ENV') == 'local'  ? [
                'dump_binary_path' => 'D:\wamp64\bin\mysql\mysql5.7.36\bin',
                'use_single_transaction',
                'timeout' => 60 * 5, // 5 minute timeout
            ] : [],
            ...
           ],

You have to find where your wamp files locate, and put the path of your mySql path and version to 'dump_binary_path'.

Gerigerianna