How To Secure PHPMyAdmin and MySQL in Windows XAMPP Server

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This tutorial shows a few ways to make your phpmyadmin and MySQL database server more secure on a Windows XAMPP web server. These same methods can be used on Linux and other Apache servers, but the directories will be different.
I explain how to use the Allow from directive, htaccess and htpasswd files, and the importance of using strong passwords for your phpMyAdmin access.