How To Install PhpMyAdmin 4.8 on Fedora 28/27/26

PhpMyAdmin is a well most popular web-based client for managing MySQL server. PHPMyAdmin is written in PHP programming language. It provides a user-friendly web interface to access and manage MySQL databases. This article will help you to install phpMyAdmin on Fedora 28/27/26 System.

Prerequsities

We assume you already have installed Apache (HTTP) web server, PHP and MySQL database server on your system.

• Apache >= 2.2
• PHP >= 5.5
• MySQL/MariaDB >= 5.5

Step 1 – Configure Remi Repository

phpMyAdmin most updated package is available in Remi repository. Install it in your system using the following commands.

### Fedora 28
sudo rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/fedora/remi-release-25.rpm

### Fedora 27
sudo rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/fedora/remi-release-27.rpm

### Fedora 26
sudo rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/fedora/remi-release-26.rpm

Step 2 – Install PhpMyAdmin

After enabling Remi repository on your system, let’s start the with the installation of phpMyAdmin using yum package manager. All the dependencies will automatically be installed.

sudo dnf --enablerepo=remi,remi-test install phpMyAdmin

Step 3 – Allow Remote Access

phpMyAdmin by default allowed to access from localhost only. If you want to make it accessible from remote computers edit Apache configuration file of phpMyAdmin.

sudo vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpMyAdmin.conf

Now check for below section. Change Require local to Require all granted, This will disable local restriction access and phpMyAdmin will be accessible from network.

After making any changes in Apache configuration file, you must restart Apache service to reload updated settings.

sudo service httpd restart

Step 4 – Access phpMyAdmin in Browser

Now you can access phpMyAdmin in a browser using the following URL. Remote users change localhost with system IP address.

http://localhost/phpMyAdmin/

Congratulation’s You have successfully installed phpMyAdmin. Using single phpMyAdmin we can manage multiple MySQL servers by adding multiple remote MySQL server. Use this article to add multiple MySQL hosts in phpMyAdmin.