Can't install phpMyAdmin on fresh Wordpress Droplet

Hi there @neddytek,

I tried following the article as described and it seems like it works as expected.

Note that you need to also follow the mentioned prerequisites otherwise you might hit unexpected errors.

In my case I had to do the following:

• Follow the steps from the initial server setup guide: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/initial-server-setup-with-ubuntu-18-04

• Then follow the steps on how to install LAMP: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-linux-apache-mysql-php-lamp-stack-ubuntu-18-04

• And finally proceed with the phpMyAdmin tutorial

I think that you would get the error in case that you have not run the sudo mysql_secure_installation command from the How to install LAMP tutorial.

Hope that this helps! Regards, Bobby

This is happening every single time I use the marketplace image for WordPress with Ubuntu 20, tried tons of suggested solutions on internet and the one that did the trick was this:

Start mysql with root user and then:

mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'debian-sys-maint'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION;

mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

mysql> EXIT

The part I was missing and didn’t see in other places was the WITH GRANT OPTION.