phpMyAdmin configuration storage is not completely configured

Question

I have installed xampp 5.6.14 on windows. I open phpmyadmin http://localhost/phpmyadmin/

but warning

! The phpMyAdmin configuration storage is not

Answer 1

The officially distributed create_tables.sql script includes a line to create and use the 'phpmyadmin' database, so perhaps XAMPP changes things.

Note that I don't use XAMPP and I expected that their installer would have set this all up for you, so there may be something wrong there that should be fixed in a more proper way, but one possible solution might be to download the official phpMyAdmin version of create_tables.sql and use that, or you could just add the following line at the top of your sql file:

CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS `phpmyadmin`
  DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_bin;
USE phpmyadmin;