As a WAMP user, you are familiar with phpMyAdmin. Like any application bundled with WAMP, phpMyAdmin upgrades will be released. How do you know when a new upgrade is released? Simple, phpMyAdmin will tell you in the right sidebar, along with a message across the bottom after you login.

Without further adieu, here’s how to upgrade…
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Download the most recent stable version of phpMyAdmin.
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Extract the contents of the download to the apps directory inside your WAMP root, typically
c:/wamp/apps
.Extract Upgrade - Inside the apps directory is a directory named after the version of phpMyAdmin that is currently running. Leave this directory present in case you need to roll back.
- After the extraction is finished, I like to rename the extracted directory with the same naming convention that WAMP uses —
phpMyAdmin-4.3.6-all-languages
becomesphpmyadmin4.3.6
.
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Copy the
config.inc.php
configuration file from the current version of phpMyAdmin to the new version. -
Update the
phpmyadmin.conf
configuration file located in the alias directory, typicallyc:/wamp/alias
. Point theAlias
and<Directory>
paths to your new phpMyAdmin directory. -
Update the
wampmanager.conf
configuration file located in the WAMP root directory.-
Toward the bottom of the file, under the
[apps]
block, change the currentphpmyadminVersion
setting to your new version number. -
Toward the top of the file, under the
[main]
block, verify that thenavigator
setting points to the correct location of your computer’s web browser. If this is wrong, you will see the following [perplexing] error message when you try to launch apps from the WAMP menu tray:Could not execute menu item (internal error) [Exception] Could not execute run action: The system cannot find the file specified
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Last but not least, Restart All Services in WAMP (assuming WAMP is running), and login to your upgraded phpMyAdmin.
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