phpMyAdmin server description instead of hostname

Question

I installed phpMyAdmin 4.4.8 (latest version) and I configured some MySQL host I can connect to.

Servers are listed with the $cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] value in the server list and I cannot find out a way to configure a "description string" in the phpMyAdmin configuration file.

I know I could configure a DNS or a /etc/hosts entry to assign a custom name to the servers, but I wish to use a more understandable description (like "Testing server" or "Production server").

Do you know a way to configure this in phpMyAdmin?

Thank you very much!

Bye

Answer 1

Try set $cfg['Servers'][$i]['verbose']

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['verbose']

Type: string
Default value: ''

Only useful when using phpMyAdmin with multiple server entries. If set, this string will be displayed instead of the hostname in the pull-down menu on the main page. This can be useful if you want to show only certain databases on your system, for example. For HTTP auth, all non-US-ASCII characters will be stripped.

Ref: http://docs.phpmyadmin.net/en/latest/config.html#server-connection-settings