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Hi Guys!
First of all: MERRY CHRISTMAS!

In those days I've setted up a test server which aims to be a production one, based over XAMPP. Maybe crazy but that's it.
I've now configured the privileges for my users on phpmyadmin and FTP, but I have a problem:
to reach the phpmyadmin login page all my users have still to login to the xampp login interface (the one which by default user is "lampp"). Why?

To put it simple:
if I access http://82.88.11.141/phpmyadmin/
I get the xampp login interface and ONLY AFTER the phpmyadmi login page!
Is there a way around this!?

There is a ".htaccess" in the phpMyAdmin directory. Delete this file and change the login method in config.inc.php to "cookie".

Tricky One, there's no .htaccess file in it, but still I get the login screen

Wooops I found it!

By the way I'd like to pick up again a topic that was already started but got very few replies...Xampp on a production service with enanched security.
How would you work on this subject? I mean, how would you do that, very down to earth?