How to Install phpPgAdmin on CentOS & RHEL using Yum

phpPgAdmin is web-based client written in php for accessing and managing PostgreSQL databases. It provides very efficient way to work with databases on PostgreSQL like, create database, table, alter database, export/import database etc.

This article will help you to install phpPgAdmin on CentOS and RedHat Systems. Before installing it make sure you have Apache and PostgreSQL installed on server. If you do not have them read our tutorials to how to install them.

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Step 1: Add PostgreSQL Repository

First step is to install postgres repository in your system, Download repository rpm using one of below urls.

CentOS/RHEL 5, 32-Bit:
# wget http://yum.postgresql.org/9.1/redhat/rhel-5-i386/pgdg-centos91-9.1-4.noarch.rpm

CentOS/RHEL 6, 32-Bit:
# wget http://yum.postgresql.org/9.1/redhat/rhel-6-i386/pgdg-centos91-9.1-4.noarch.rpm

CentOS/RHEL 5, 64-Bit:
# wget http://yum.postgresql.org/9.1/redhat/rhel-5.0-x86_64//pgdg-centos91-9.1-4.noarch.rpm

CentOS/RHEL 6, 64-Bit:
# wget http://yum.postgresql.org/9.1/redhat/rhel-6.3-x86_64/pgdg-centos91-9.1-4.noarch.rpm

Step 2: Install phpPgAdmin using Yum

Install phpPgAdmin package using yum command line tool.

# yum install phpPgAdmin

Step 3: Configure phpPgAdmin to Access Remotly.

phpPgAdmin bye default all allowed to access from localhost only. If you want to make it accessible from remote computers edit /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpPgAdmin.conf and update configure like below.

Alias /phpPgAdmin /usr/share/phpPgAdmin

<Directory /usr/share/phpPgAdmin>
   order deny,allow
   deny from all
   allow from 192.168.1.0/24
</Directory>

Step 4: Restart Apache Service

Restart Apache service to reload new settings.

# service httpd restart

Step 5: Access phpPgAdmin on Browser.

Now you can access phpPgAdmin in browser using following url. Change 192.168.1.100 with your server ip.

 http://192.168.1.100/phpPgAdmin/

3 Comments

JayH on July 30, 2014 6:42 pm
Quick bit of info, if like me, you receive an error when following the exact steps – after the wget, you’ll see:
[root@mymachine]# yum install phpPgAdmin
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, security
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: mirrors.usinternet.com
* extras: mirror.team-cymru.org
* updates: mirrors-pa.sioru.com
Setting up Install Process
No package phpPgAdmin available.
Error: Nothing to do
Do this instead:
[root@mymachine]# yum install pgdg-centos91-9.1-4.noarch.rpm
THEN you can yum install the package name… It’s just that the rpm needed to be installed for the repo before continuing.
- Lucas Reis on November 12, 2014 1:53 am
  Hey bro, thank you. I worked for me, but I am having a problem to log in on phpPgAdmin. I created a new super user through terminal, but I cannot log in on phpPgAdmin. Can you help with this?
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