With Microsoft Windows and macOS, the XAMPP Project provides MySQL along with phpMyAdmin as a pack-in. The XAMPP control panel provides one-click access to phpMyAdmin.

XAMPP is a collection of free software for installing and using the Apache Web server. Basically, it is an Apache distribution that includes the Apache Web server, MySQL, PHP, Perl an FTP server and ...

In addition to Apache, MySQL, and PHP, XAMPP includes thephpMyAdmin database administration tool, FileZilla FTP server,Mercury mail server, Perl programming language, and JSP serverTomcat.

That will launch XAMPP's Control Panel, which lets you start all the services you need. To run MediaWiki, you need two services: Apache web server, and the MySql database server.

How to change phpMyAdmin password on XAMPP To change the phpMyAdmin password on XAMPP, you first need to launch the XAMPP Control Panel. Once it opens, click on the Admin button for MySQL.