Configure phpMyAdmin on Linux

How to Install and Configure phpMyAdmin on CentOS 6

Introduction:


phpMyAdmin is a free software tool written in PHP, intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web. phpMyAdmin supports a wide range of operations on MySQL and MariaDB. Frequently used operations (managing databases, tables, columns, relations, indexes, users, permissions, etc) can be performed via the user interface, while you still have the ability to directly execute any SQL statement.

phpMyAdmin comes with a wide range of documentation and users are welcome to update our wiki pages to share ideas and how to use for various operations.



Pre-Requirements and Checks

These instructions are intended specifically for installing phpMyAdmin on CentOS 6.
A LAMP, Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP, must be installed on your server if you needed to install LAMP please click here

1: Add the EPEL Repository

phpMyAdmin is part of Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL), which is a community repository of non-standard packages for the RHEL distribution. First, we’ll install the EPEL repository:

# rpm -iUvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

Step 2: Install phpMyAdmin
First, you’ll follow a simple best practice: ensuring the list of available packages is up to date before installing anything new.

# yum -y update

Then it’s a matter of just running one command for installation via apt-get:

# yum -y install phpmyadmin

Step 3: Find Your IP Address
Find your IP address with any of the following sites:

What’s My IP Address?
What Is My IP?
My IP Address
Step 4: Basic Configuration for phpMyAdmin
To secure phpMyAdmin we should lock down access to a specific IP address. When the phpMyAdmin package is installed, an Apache Virtual Host file is added to configure web access. Let’s edit that file:

# vim /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpMyAdmin.conf

For a refresher on editing files with vim see: New User Tutorial: Overview of the Vim Text Editor

By default, the configuration for phpMyAdmin only allows access from the server on which it is installed. Find the following sections and change each IP address to the one you found in Step 3, or another IP address that will be connecting to phpMyAdmin remotely:

Require ip 127.0.0.1
Allow from 127.0.0.1
Require ip 127.0.0.1
Allow from 127.0.0.1

Then exit and save the file with the command :wq .

Restart Apache:

# service httpd restart

Verify that phpMyAdmin is working by visiting http://the_IP_of_your_server/phpmyadmin. For example: http://127.0.0.1/phpmyadmin

phpmyadin login screen


phpmyadmin main screen


Redirecting phpMyadmin to use remotely



Most of the time we use MySQL Database on the remote server and by default phpMyadmin will not be used from the remote server to the remote administration we needed to modify the apache to redirect the service to the specfic web root folder so that we can access from the remote machine we needed to modify the httpd configuration file.  Here assuming that my mysql server and php myadmin are on the server 192.168.1.84

# vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Add these lines at the end of the configuration file
.......
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.
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<VirtualHost 192.168.1.84>
    ServerName 192.168.1.84
    ProxyRequests off
    ProxyPass              /phpmyadmin   http://127.0.0.1:808/phpmyadmin
    ProxyPassReverse       /phpmyadmin   http://127.0.0.1:808/phpmyadmin
 </VirtualHost>

:wq


Restart the apache server to apply the modifications

# service apache restart


Now we can access the phpMyadmin from the remote machine using http://192.168.1.84/phpmyadmin




Keywords: Mysql GUI Admin, Remote admin MySQL from remote machine, phpmyadmin, phpmyadmin on remote system


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