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Most of the windows users choose XAMMP to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP, phpMyAdmin, and Perl. But, if you try to update any one of the softwares, you may face difficulties. Either you must have to install the latest version of XAMPP (or) you must update the software and configure the web server manually. In such case, we may either loss the data (or) it may remain nonfunctional. So it is safe to take backup of whole files, before trying to install manually. In this tutorial, I have tried to update the old phpMyAdmin in the XAMPP to phpMyAdmin 4.2.12 ( the latest stable release, as on Nov 29, 2014 ) and faced many technical problems. I searched through google for this issue, but I didn't got a proper solution. Finally, I referred the phpMyAdmin error message and documentations and solved the problem. It works fine now. The simple and easy steps which I followed is explained below: Download the latest version of the phpMyAdmin from the official site ht...

This tutorial explains about a simple method to configure Apache, PHP, MySQL, Perl and Python in windows platform. In this tutorial, I have used the latest operating system (Windows 8.1 Enterprise Edition 64-bit) and latest softwares - XAMPP 1.8.3 and Python 3.3.0. Refer official site of XAMPP and Python for installation instructions. XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. The XAMPP 1.8.3 contains of Apache, MySQL, PHP + PEAR, Perl, mod_php, mod_perl, mod_ssl, OpenSSL, phpMyAdmin, Webalizer, Mercury Mail Transport System for Win32 and NetWare Systems v3.32, Ming, FileZilla FTP Server, mcrypt, eAccelerator, SQLite, and WEB-DAV + mod_auth_mysql. The default configuration of Apache is perfectly linked with MySQL, PHP and Perl. Since Perl and Python run under common gateway interface (CGI), configuring Python CGI with XAMPP is very easy. To convert XAMPP into XAMPPP, we have to change the existing AddHandler Apache configuration command to AddHa...