How to install phpMyadmin on centos7/Redhat 7

Chetan Kapoor

9 years ago

How yo install phpmyadmin on centos 7 & redhat 7

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.

source wikipedia

Installation of phpMyadmin

Firstly install epel repo in centos to install phpMyadmin use following command to install epel repo:

yum install epel-release -y

Now EPEL repo is installed and configured, you can install phpMyadmin using yum:

yum install phpmyadmin -y

Now open the phpmyadmin configuration file with editor

nano /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpMyAdmin.conf

change 127.0.0.1 to your ip address to access phpmyadmin from your ip

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 save and exit from editor

Restart Apache

systemctl restart httpd

Now go to browser and go to your server ip to access phpmyadmin as below

http://ipaddress/phpmyadmin or http://1.2.3.4/phpmyadmin

and login with mysql root user and password

If you have any problem using this tutorial please feel free to comment below..