How to install phpmyadmin on linux server ?

Solution :

phpMyAdmin is a free software tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the World Wide Web. phpMyAdmin supports a wide range of operations with MySQL. The most frequently used operations are supported by the user interface (managing databases, tables, fields, relations, indexes, users, permissions, etc), while you still have the ability to directly execute any SQL statement.

You can easily installed it on a plain Linux VPS Hosting or Dedicated server :

1. Download the latest version of phpMyAdmin from

 http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/downloads.php
OR
http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/files/

2. Rename the TAR file for your convenience :

root@support [~]# mv phpMyAdmin* phpMyAdmin.tar.gz

3. Untar the package :

root@support [~]# tar xzf phpMyAdmin*

4. Move it to the appropriate place :

root@support [~]# mv phpMyAdmin /usr/share/

5. Configure phpMyAdmin :
root@support [~]# cd /usr/share/phpMyAdmin
root@support [/usr/share/phpmyadmin]# cp config.*.php config.inc.php
root@support [/usr/share/phpmyadmin]# vi config.inc.php

6. Locate the following lines within that file & make sure each they look like the below ones :

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'http';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controluser'] = 'root';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controlpass'] = 'mysql-root-pass';

7. Save the file.

8. Create the apache configuration file for phpMyAdmin :

root@support [/usr/share/phpmyadmin]# echo "alias /phpmyadmin /usr/share/phpMyAdmin" > /etc/httpd/conf.d/httpd.conf

9. Restart the http service :

root@support [~]# service httpd restart

10. You’re done