Installing phpMyAdmin for MySQL Administration
Download latest phpMyAdmin.
In an appropriate website content folder (e.g. /Library/WebServer/Documents/ on Mac OS X):
tar xvf ~/phpMyAdmin-2.11.8.1-english.tar.bz2 ln -s phpMyAdmin-2.11.8.1-english phpmyadmin cd phpmyadmin cp config.sample.inc.php config.inc.php
Edit config.inc.php and set your blowfish secret to a random string:
$cfg['blowfish_secret'] = 'ertyrtfghrty';
On Mac OS X Leopard, there appears to be an issue with PHP that you have to resolve by changing localhost to 127.0.0.1:
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = '127.0.0.1';
Save the file, then browse to http://localhost/phpmyadmin, login as root as see how things look.