phpMyAdmin is a free software written in PHP, intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web. phpMyAdmin comes with a wide range of tools for managing MySQL databases.
Before we can install phpMyAdmin you need to install LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) stack. If you haven't already, you can install LAMP stack by following our tutorial on Installing LAMP stack on Ubuntu 15.04.
We can start the installation by updating our apt-get package repository so we will get the latest version of phpMyAdmin. Run the following commands to update apt-get.
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade
Now we can install phpMyAdmin by using the following command.
sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin
You will be asked few questions during the installation to configure phpMyAdmin. Select the following answers.
Once the configuration is completed, we need to enable PHP mcrypt extension. We can do that by running the following command:
sudo php5enmod mcrypt
We can restart apache to load changes we have made, we can restart apache by typing:
sudo service apache2 restart
You can now access phpMyAdmin by going to your server's domain or public IP address and add /phpmyadmin/
to the end. It should look like this:
http://domain_or_server_ip/phpmyadmin/
Now you should see a page that looks similar to this image.
You can now log in using the username root and the password that you entered when installing phpMyAdmin.
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