How To Install phpMyAdmin on Fedora 34/33

PhpMyAdmin is a popular web-based client for managing MySQL server. The phpMyAdmin is written in PHP programming language. It provides a user-friendly web interface to access and manage MySQL server and databases.

It allows you to create database, users and assign privileges to users. You can create tables in database and also perform insert, update, delete operations in table records.

This article will help you to how to install phpMyAdmin on Fedora 34/33/32/31/30 systems.

Prerequisites

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

Alternatively, you can use our tutorial to install and configure LAMP stack on Fedora system.

Step 1 – Configure REMI Repository

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

### Fedora 34
sudo rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/fedora/remi-release-34.rpm 

### Fedora 33
sudo rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/fedora/remi-release-33.rpm 

### Fedora 32
sudo rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/fedora/remi-release-32.rpm 

Step 2 – Install phpMyAdmin on Fedora

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

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

Press ‘y’ for the confirmation asked by the dnf tool to complete the installation.

Step 3 – Allow Remote Access

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

sudo vim /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 systemctl restart httpd 

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.