Thread: Are there any risks of not upgrading phpMyAdmin?

If there's an upgrade available you should install it, as PhpMyAdmin (and a lot of other PHP / MySQL scripts) usually get upgraded due to security issues.

If you're using Cpanel all you'd be doing is just clicking a couple of buttons.. so it's not real server admin work

Originally Posted by blacknight

If there's an upgrade available you should install it, as PhpMyAdmin (and a lot of other PHP / MySQL scripts) usually get upgraded due to security issues.

If you're using Cpanel all you'd be doing is just clicking a couple of buttons.. so it's not real server admin work

Control panel is Kloxo.. (if you're not talking about general "control panel" and just the cPanel control panel)
It's the same, right?

Also, is there any risks of running into any sort of errors while upgrading phpMyAdmin? (including data lost, etc..)

Well Kloxo isn't Cpanel

Generally speaking (and your mileage may vary) upgrading phpmyadmin is simply a matter of new scripts replacing the old ones, so it shouldn't have any impact on data. Just check the versions carefully - if the old one is susceptible to a nasty security hole then ...

Originally Posted by blacknight

Well Kloxo isn't Cpanel

Generally speaking (and your mileage may vary) upgrading phpmyadmin is simply a matter of new scripts replacing the old ones, so it shouldn't have any impact on data. Just check the versions carefully - if the old one is susceptible to a nasty security hole then ...

Yeah, I know Kloxo isn't cPanel, lmao.
I know some people shorten the word "control" and say cPanel for "control panel" so I was unsure if you were talking about cPanel or another control panel (so I wanted to confirm).

Thanks for your answer, btw.