For now, we notice that the setup process has
detected that PHP supports the mysqli extension, so this is the one that is chosen
by default. This extension is the programming library used by PHP to communicate
with MySQL.
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Let's enter the minimum parameters required for a first connection. We assume that
our MySQL server is located on localhost, so we keep this value and all the proposed
values intact, except for the following:
User for config auth: we enter our user name, marc
Password for config auth: we enter our password, bingo
We then click Add, and we get the New server added message. Now our setup
process knows about one MySQL server, and there are sections of the interface that
enable us to Edit or Delete these server settings:
We can have a look at the generated configuration lines by using the Configuration/
Display button??”then we can analyze these parameters using the explanations given
in The config.inc.php File section later in this chapter.
At this point, this configuration is still just in memory, so we need to save it.
This is done via the Configuration/Save button. It saves config.inc.php in the
special config directory we created previously. This is a directory strictly used for
configuration purposes.
The last step is to copy config.inc.php from the config directory to the top-level
directory??”the one that contains index.
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