PhpMyAdmin
phpMyAdmin is a free software tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the World Wide Web. It can manage a whole MySQL server (needs a super-user) as well as a single database. 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. In this post, i will show on how to install phpMyAdmin on CentOS 6.2 using EPEL repository. This post assumed that MySQL and Apache Httpd server has been installed and configured as per documented guidelines below :
How to Install Httpd on CentOS 6.2
How to Install MySQL Database Server on CentOS 6.2
How to Secure MySQL Database Server
1. How to Install and Configure EPEL Repository :
Follow this steps to install and configure the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository on CentOS 6.2. EPEL repository is another extra repository that creates, maintains, and manages a high quality set of additional packages for Enterprise Linux, including, but not limited to, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and CentOS server.
2. Simply run yum command to install phpmyadmin :
[root@centos62 ~]# yum install phpmyadmin -y Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: mirrors.hostemo.com * epel: ftp.riken.jp * extras: mirrors.hostemo.com * updates: ossm.utm.my Setting up Install Process Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package phpMyAdmin.noarch 0:3.4.9-1.el6 will be installed --> Processing Dependency: php-gd >= 5.2.0 for package: phpMyAdmin-3.4.9-1.el6.noarch --> Processing Dependency: php-php-gettext for package: phpMyAdmin-3.4.9-1.el6.noarch --> Running transaction check ---> Package php-gd.i686 0:5.3.3-3.el6_2.6 will be installed ---> Package php-php-gettext.noarch 0:1.0.11-3.el6 will be installed --> Finished Dependency Resolution Dependencies Resolved ==================================================================================================== Package Arch Version Repository Size ==================================================================================================== Installing: phpMyAdmin noarch 3.4.9-1.el6 epel 4.1 M Installing for dependencies: php-gd i686 5.3.3-3.el6_2.6 updates 102 k php-php-gettext noarch 1.0.11-3.el6 epel 21 k Transaction Summary ==================================================================================================== Install 3 Package(s) Total download size: 4.2 M Installed size: 15 M Downloading Packages: (1/3): php-gd-5.3.3-3.el6_2.6.i686.rpm | 102 kB 00:00 (2/3): php-php-gettext-1.0.11-3.el6.noarch.rpm | 21 kB 00:00 (3/3): phpMyAdmin-3.4.9-1.el6.noarch.rpm | 4.1 MB 00:46 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 89 kB/s | 4.2 MB 00:48 Running rpm_check_debug Running Transaction Test Transaction Test Succeeded Running Transaction Installing : php-php-gettext-1.0.11-3.el6.noarch 1/3 Installing : php-gd-5.3.3-3.el6_2.6.i686 2/3 Installing : phpMyAdmin-3.4.9-1.el6.noarch 3/3 Installed: phpMyAdmin.noarch 0:3.4.9-1.el6 Dependency Installed: php-gd.i686 0:5.3.3-3.el6_2.6 php-php-gettext.noarch 0:1.0.11-3.el6 Complete!
3. Open the phpMyAdmin.conf configuration file as below :
[root@centos62 ~]# vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpMyAdmin.conf
Original phpMyAdmin.conf configuration file :
<Directory /usr/share/phpMyAdmin/> Order Deny,Allow Deny from All Allow from 127.0.0.1 Allow from ::1 </Directory>
Change as below. Default setting only allows only localhost. Changes below will allow access to any ip address but very dangerous unless properly secured by SSL :
<Directory /usr/share/phpMyAdmin/> Order Deny,Allow Deny from All Allow from All Allow from ::1 </Directory>
4. Restart apache httpd service to take effect :
[root@centos62 ~]# service httpd restart Stopping httpd: [ OK ] Starting httpd: [ OK ]
5. Open PhpMyAdmin from myour browser using the following URL :
http://ipaddress/phpmyadmin/
