Question

I’m trying to follow along with a tutorial. In the tutorial, the instructor shows how to edit the config.inc file to set a folder as the UploadDir. This enabled him to select .SQL files in that folder from a “web server upload directory” drop down menu when importing in phpmyadmin. I tried getting help with this, but couldn’t get it to work. So instead I wanted to just browse for the file and import. I was able to do this, but then I wanted to select “Latin-1” for the character set, as the instructor did, but there is no option for it for me. I don’t know if it really matters (I assume it does; otherwise he wouldn’t have insisted on it.) Does he have the choice available only because he was able to get the web server upload directory to work or did it work for him because he was using some older phpmyadmin? (The video was made in March 2009.)

Answer 1

Evidently, there is now an extra line: $cfg['UploadDir'] = '';
(Scroll down in the file from where he is adding it in the tutorial to find it)

In the tutorial, he adds $cfg['UploadDir'] = 'c:\Files'; to the file, and the above line must not already exist for him when he made the video.

Deleting this redundant line made it possible for “webserver upload directory” select box to appear in my PHPMyAdmin interface. It wasn’t working for me until I deleted this preexisting line. (or just put c:\Files between the single quotes of the existing line)

Now, I have to figure out why there is no “latin1‘ selection available on the next line of the PHPMyAdmin interface.