How to Install and Secure PhpMyAdmin on Linux using Source Archive

    RahulBy 2 Mins ReadUpdated:

    phpMyAdmin is web-based client written in PHP programming language for managing MySQL databases. It provides a user-friendly web interface to access and manage your databases. This article will help you to install phpMyAdmin on CentOS, RHEL, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian and other Linux operating systems. Before installing PHPMyAdmin make sure that you have Apache, PHP and MySQL installed on the server. If you do not have them read our tutorials on how to install them.

    Step 1 – Download phpMyAdmin Archive

    Download latest phpMyAdmin source code and extract on your system using. Click here to download latest or any older release of phpMyAdmin. Also extract the downloaded archive. This version of phpMyAdmin is compatible with PHP >= 5.5 and MySQL >= 5.5.

    cd /usr/share
wget https://files.phpmyadmin.net/phpMyAdmin/4.8.5/phpMyAdmin-4.8.5-all-languages.zip
unzip phpMyAdmin-4.8.5-all-languages.zip
mv phpMyAdmin-4.8.5-all-languages phpmyadmin

    Now set the proper permissions on files to be used with the web server. Generally, Apache web server runs under user and group named www-data on Debian based systems and apache on Redhat based systems.

    ### Debian based system 
chown -R www-data:www-data /usr/share/phpmyadmin
chmod -R 755 /usr/share/phpmyadmin

### Redhat based system 
chown -R apache:apache /usr/share/phpmyadmin
chmod -R 755 /usr/share/phpmyadmin

    Step 2 – Setup Apache for phpMyAdmin

    Create a new Apache configuration file for phpMyAdmin /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf for RedHat based system and /etc/apache2/conf-available/phpmyadmin.conf for Debian based systems and add following settings there.

    <Directory "/usr/share/phpmyadmin">
  Order Deny,Allow
  Deny from all
  Allow from localhost
  Allow from 127.0.0.1
  Allow from 192.168.1.0/24
</Directory>

Alias /phpmyadmin /usr/share/phpmyadmin
Alias /phpMyAdmin /usr/share/phpmyadmin

    Change 192.168.1.0/24 with your LAN subnet IP addresses.

    Step 3 – Restart Apache Service

    After creating a configuration file we need to restart or reload Apache service. I prefer to just reload on production servers.

    sudo service httpd reload           ## RedHat based systems 
sudo service apache2 reload         ## Debian based systems

    Step 4 – Access phpMyAdmin

    Now you can access phpMyAdmin in a browser using the following URL. Change localhost with your server’s IP or hostname.

    URL: http://localhost/phpMyAdmin/
    Login Details: Use MySQL username and password.

    phpMyAdmin login screen

    Congratulation’s You have successfully installed phpMyAdmin.

    Share.

    Related Posts

    21 Comments

    1. Aneesh Sankar on

      My Experiments – Now Got Success

      Installing phpMyAdmin 5.0
      ———————————–
      Download phpMyAdmin Archive

      Download latest phpMyAdmin source code and extract on your system using. (https://www.phpmyadmin.net/downloads/)

      wget https://files.phpmyadmin.net/phpMyAdmin/5.0.0/phpMyAdmin-5.0.0-all-languages.zip
      unzip phpMyAdmin-5.0.0-all-languages.zip
      mv phpMyAdmin-5.0.0-all-languages phpmyadmin

      Now set the proper permissions on files to be used with the web server. Generally, Apache web server runs under user and group named www-data on Debian based systems and apache on Redhat based systems.

      ### Debian based system
      chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/phpmyadmin
      chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/phpmyadmin

      ### Redhat based system
      chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/phpmyadmin
      chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/phpmyadmin

      Setup Apache for phpMyAdmin
      —————————-
      Create a new Apache configuration file for phpMyAdmin /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf for RedHat based system and /etc/apache2/conf-available/phpmyadmin.conf for Debian based systems and add following settings there.

      AddDefaultCharset UTF-8

      # Apache 2.4

      #Require ip 127.0.0.1
      #Require ip ::1
      Require all granted

      # Apache 2.2
      Order Deny,Allow
      Deny from All
      Allow from 127.0.0.1
      Allow from ::1

      Alias /phpmyadmin /var/www/html/phpmyadmin
      Alias /phpMyAdmin /var/www/html/phpmyadmin

      Restart Apache Service
      ————————
      After creating a configuration file we need to restart or reload Apache service.

      systemctl restart httpd.service

      Setup phpMyAdmin
      —————–
      MySQL root user password update

      mysql -u root -h localhost -p

      mysql> ALTER USER ‘root’@’localhost’ IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY ‘Sjcet123#’;

      Warnings (Fix)

      >> TempDir : This value should be double checked to ensure that this directory is neither world accessible nor readable or writable by other users on your

      Solution was to create a folder called tmp like this: /var/www/html/phpmyadmin/tmp.

      mkdir /var/www/html/phpmyadmin/tmp

      >> ZIP : Zip decompression requires function (zip_open) which are unavailable on this system.

      yum –enablerepo=remi-php73 install php-pecl-zip

      Blowfish Password
      ——————
      $cfg[‘blowfish_secret’] = ‘u=s|qeyn-?Pn]3erdN97{waRyq7[pkvY’;

      Access phpMyAdmin
      ——————
      Now you can access phpMyAdmin in a browser using the following URL.

      URL: http://localhost/phpMyAdmin/
      Login Details: Use MySQL username and password.

      Reply
    2. Aneesh Sankar on

      I am using Oracle Linux 7 (el)

      Installed LAMP as per your tutorial – working fine.

      Now, I followed How to Install PhpMyAdmin 4.8 on CentOS/RHEL 7/6 (https://tecadmin.net/install-phpmyadmin-on-centos/)

      Downloaded latest version of phpMyAdmin (5.0)

      After the complete steps.. while accessing http://localhost/phpmyadmin
      showing this error…. Kindly help if possible… by email to me : [email protected]

      ———————————————–
      Forbidden

      You don’t have permission to access /phpmyadmin on this server.

      ————————————————-

      Reply
      • Rahul K. on

        Hi Sibi,

        It’s showing php script on page. It means you don’t have PHP module for Apache. Try below command:

        apt install libapache2-mod-php

        Or use the module with the same version of your php like (libapache2-mod-php7.2 or libapache2-mod-php5.6) etc.

        Reply
    7. Alfakom.mk on

      Your problems may have different solutions.
      1. If you have previosely installed another version of phpmyadmin, then even if you’ve uninstalled it, the phpmyadmin folder remained, and folowing this tutorial instead of renaming the folder into phpmyadmin, you’ve moved it in the same folder as subfolder…
      Solution:
      # cd phpmyadmin
      # ls
      Check if there is only one folder (the name of the phpmyadmin version) and if so:
      # mv phpMyAdmin-4.2.10-all-languages /usr/share/
      # rm -r phpmyadmin
      And then the rest of the process from this tutorial starting from:
      # mv phpMyAdmin-4.2.10-all-languages phpmyadmin

      2. Solution
      # cd /usr/share/phpmyadmin/
      # mv config.sample.inc.php config.inc.php
      # vi config.inc.php
      Edit this line and change the ‘cookie’ to ‘http’
      $cfg[‘Servers’][$i][‘auth_type’] = ‘cookie’;

      Save the file restart httpd and try to connect.
      I would suggest to comment the whole <directory part from phpMyAdmin.conf and generate a strong root password with
      # mysql_secure_installation
      So you can later authenticate as root user from your browser…

      My comment wont do you any good, but better late than never. And also as a solution for all the other users which will have the same problem…

      Reply
    8. Aaditya on

      Hi Rahul,

      Great post, and great site! It’s definitely helped me out a lot!

      I have used this guide to install phpMyAdmin on my server, but I get a blank page when loading the url… First I had the 403 Access Forbidden error just as Ivan and Isma, but I changed the conf file as suggested, and now the page is just blank. Any help would be appreciated.

      Thanks!

      Reply
    10. Ivan on

      Hi Rahul,
      Thank you for your reply.
      Here is the file, as you can see it’s exactly as yours.

      Order Deny,Allow
      Deny from all
      Allow from all
      #Allow from 192.168.1.0/24

      Alias /phpmyadmin /usr/share/phpmyadmin
      Alias /phpMyAdmin /usr/share/phpmyadmin

      Reply
    11. Ivan on

      Hello Rahul,
      Firstly, let me thank you for your wonderful tutorials, I’ve learned very much with your help.
      Even though in this ocassion it’s been impossible to access PhpMyAdmin, I´ve installed and reinstalled every thing from scratch over and over again, created new Instances on Amazon, etc, however the result is always the same, this frustrating message: “Forbidden
      You don’t have permission to access /phpmyadmin/ on this server.”

      I’d appreaciate very much any help you can provide to me.
      Thank you in advance,

      I’m using:
      RHEL 7, MariaDB, PHP 5.4.30, Apache 2
      (http://ec2-54-94-156-123.sa-east-1.compute.amazonaws.com/phpinfo.php)

      Reply
      • Rahul on

        Hi Ivan,

        When you need to access phpMyAdmin from public network.. try to update phpMyAdmin.conf as below –

        Order Deny,Allow
        Deny from all
        Allow from all

        Reply
        • Ivan on

          Hi Rahul,

          I retry several more times, followed every step, but it’s simply impossible, error 403 persists. I’ll terminate the instances on AWS and start all over again for the fourth time.

          Thanks anyways Rahul.

          Reply
          • Rahul on

            Hi Ivan,

            If possible, provide me your server access. I can check it directly on your server. Contact me on my email.

            Reply
    12. Siddharth on

      I have installed phpmyadmin by above method but i got below error.
      “The mysqli extension is missing. Please check your PHP configuration. See our documentation for more information.”

      Tell me how to fix

      Reply
        • Sheik Abdul kathar on

          Hi,

          whenever I’m installing phpmyadmin I’m getting an error it’s saying depencies need to install and If I installed the same also the same issue.

          Please suggest for the same.

          [[email protected] phpmyadmin]# tar -xvf phpMyAdmin-4.7.6-all-languages.zip
          tar: This does not look like a tar archive
          tar: Skipping to next header
          tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
          [[email protected] phpmyadmin]# tar xvzf phpMyAdmin-4.7.6-all-languages.zip
          gzip: stdin has more than one entry–rest ignored
          tar: Child returned status 2
          tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
          [[email protected] phpmyadmin]# gunzip phpMyAdmin-4.7.6-all-languages.zip
          gzip: phpMyAdmin-4.7.6-all-languages.zip: unknown suffix — ignored
          [[email protected] phpmyadmin]# tar tvf phpMyAdmin-4.7.6-all-languages.zip
          tar: This does not look like a tar archive
          tar: Skipping to next header
          tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
          [[email protected] phpmyadmin]# clear
          [[email protected] phpmyadmin]#
          [[email protected] phpmyadmin]#
          [[email protected] phpmyadmin]#
          [[email protected] phpmyadmin]#
          login as: root
          [email protected]‘s password:
          Last login: Tue Mar 20 12:21:00 2018 from noc2-hcl-pc.iimb.ernet.in
          [[email protected] ~]# yum install phpmyadmin
          Loaded plugins: langpacks, product-id, search-disabled-repos, subscription-manager
          This system is registered with an entitlement server, but is not receiving updates. You can use subscription-manager to assign subscriptions.
          Resolving Dependencies
          –> Running transaction check
          —> Package phpMyAdmin.noarch 0:4.4.15.10-2.el7 will be installed
          –> Processing Dependency: php-mbstring >= 5.3.7 for package: phpMyAdmin-4.4.15.10-2.el7.noarch
          –> Processing Dependency: php-php-gettext for package: phpMyAdmin-4.4.15.10-2.el7.noarch
          –> Processing Dependency: php-tcpdf for package: phpMyAdmin-4.4.15.10-2.el7.noarch
          –> Processing Dependency: php-tcpdf-dejavu-sans-fonts for package: phpMyAdmin-4.4.15.10-2.el7.noarch
          –> Running transaction check
          —> Package php-php-gettext.noarch 0:1.0.12-1.el7 will be installed
          –> Processing Dependency: php-mbstring for package: php-php-gettext-1.0.12-1.el7.noarch
          —> Package php-tcpdf.noarch 0:6.2.13-1.el7 will be installed
          –> Processing Dependency: php-bcmath for package: php-tcpdf-6.2.13-1.el7.noarch
          –> Processing Dependency: php-composer(fedora/autoloader) for package: php-tcpdf-6.2.13-1.el7.noarch
          –> Processing Dependency: php-mbstring for package: php-tcpdf-6.2.13-1.el7.noarch
          –> Processing Dependency: php-tidy for package: php-tcpdf-6.2.13-1.el7.noarch
          —> Package php-tcpdf-dejavu-sans-fonts.noarch 0:6.2.13-1.el7 will be installed
          —> Package phpMyAdmin.noarch 0:4.4.15.10-2.el7 will be installed
          –> Processing Dependency: php-mbstring >= 5.3.7 for package: phpMyAdmin-4.4.15.10-2.el7.noarch
          –> Running transaction check
          —> Package php-fedora-autoloader.noarch 0:1.0.0-1.el7 will be installed
          —> Package php-php-gettext.noarch 0:1.0.12-1.el7 will be installed
          –> Processing Dependency: php-mbstring for package: php-php-gettext-1.0.12-1.el7.noarch
          —> Package php-tcpdf.noarch 0:6.2.13-1.el7 will be installed
          –> Processing Dependency: php-bcmath for package: php-tcpdf-6.2.13-1.el7.noarch
          –> Processing Dependency: php-mbstring for package: php-tcpdf-6.2.13-1.el7.noarch
          —> Package php-tidy.x86_64 0:5.4.16-7.el7 will be installed
          –> Processing Dependency: libtidy-0.99.so.0()(64bit) for package: php-tidy-5.4.16-7.el7.x86_64
          —> Package phpMyAdmin.noarch 0:4.4.15.10-2.el7 will be installed
          –> Processing Dependency: php-mbstring >= 5.3.7 for package: phpMyAdmin-4.4.15.10-2.el7.noarch
          –> Running transaction check
          —> Package compat-libtidy.x86_64 0:0.99.0-37.20091203.el7 will be installed
          —> Package php-php-gettext.noarch 0:1.0.12-1.el7 will be installed
          –> Processing Dependency: php-mbstring for package: php-php-gettext-1.0.12-1.el7.noarch
          —> Package php-tcpdf.noarch 0:6.2.13-1.el7 will be installed
          –> Processing Dependency: php-bcmath for package: php-tcpdf-6.2.13-1.el7.noarch
          –> Processing Dependency: php-mbstring for package: php-tcpdf-6.2.13-1.el7.noarch
          —> Package phpMyAdmin.noarch 0:4.4.15.10-2.el7 will be installed
          –> Processing Dependency: php-mbstring >= 5.3.7 for package: phpMyAdmin-4.4.15.10-2.el7.noarch
          –> Finished Dependency Resolution
          Error: Package: php-tcpdf-6.2.13-1.el7.noarch (epel)
          Requires: php-mbstring
          Error: Package: php-php-gettext-1.0.12-1.el7.noarch (epel)
          Requires: php-mbstring
          Error: Package: phpMyAdmin-4.4.15.10-2.el7.noarch (epel)
          Requires: php-mbstring >= 5.3.7
          Error: Package: php-tcpdf-6.2.13-1.el7.noarch (epel)
          Requires: php-bcmath
          You could try using –skip-broken to work around the problem
          You could try running: rpm -Va –nofiles –nodigest

          I have tried all the packages lists.But same issue.Tried to install the seperate packages also same issue.

          Please help me to resolve the issue.

          Reply

    Leave A Reply