phpMyAdmin on RAQ4

Some manual editing is needed in config.inc.php.
Look at
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 * If the auto-detection code does work properly, you can set to TRUE the
 * $cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri_DisableWarning'] variable below.
 */
$cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri'] = 'http://xxxxx.com/phpMyAdmin/';
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(this should be the address to launch PMA)
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Here is a (modified) example that works:

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host']          = 'localhost'; // MySQL hostname or IP address
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['port']          = '';          // MySQL port - leave blank for default port
$cfg['Servers'][$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')
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension']     = 'mysql';     // The php MySQL extension to use ('mysql' or 'mysqli')
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['compress']      = FALSE;       // Use compressed protocol for the MySQL connection
                                                    // (requires PHP >= 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).
                                                    // The controluser is also
                                                    // used for all relational
                                                    // features (pmadb)
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type']     = 'config';    // Authentication method (config, http or cookie based)?
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user']          = 'root';      // MySQL user
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password']      = 'xxxx';          // MySQL password (only needed
                                                    // with 'config' auth_type)
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['only_db']       = '';          // If set to a db-name, only
                                                    // this db is displayed in left frame
                                                    // It may also be an array of db-names, where sorting order is relevant.
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Note that these parameters describe the connection between your server running PHP and the one running MySQL. Usually they are the same, hence localhost is the right value.
For a start, user (root) and its password (xxxx) should match one of the users you have ceated inside MySQL (most of the time 'xxxx' would be ''). Once this is running, you can add some security.

Hi,

Thanks for your responses.  

Squeebee:  No I have not set a password on the phpmyadmin pages.  I tried with the phpmyadmin directory set to 777 but it still asked for a login.

fibo.  Thanks for your detailed answer.  I have got this to work by replacing localhost with 127.0.0.1 and setting auth_type to cookie and supplying values for the controluser and controlpassword.  The config auth_type will not work for me as I need to allow other users to manage their Mysql Databases on their virtual hosts.  If I set the auth_type to http it stll pops up the system login box.

I have got this to work now using the cookie auth_type but I would like to know why the http auth_type won't work.  Is there something else I need to allow apache access to?

Thanks

Denis