restrict access to phpMyAdmin by authentication

Wondering how authentication/log-in form will be implemented in xampp? This edit in config.inc.php will handle the job.

The path for the configuration script is <your-xampp-installation-path>\phpMyAdmin\config.inc.php.

This line configures the authentication used by phpMyAdmin in accessing it:

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'authentication method here'; // Authentication method (config, http or cookie based)?

Note:

If you replace the use authentication method here with:

config
- it will use the password and username from the configuration file. Remember the last tutorial? (read it here)

http
- will use the http authentication of Apache(secure/recommended settings)

cookie
- will use the database for username in authentication and will require browsers to allow cookie. (secure/recommended setting)

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