How do I change phpMyAdmin access url?

Posted on January 7, 2015

I’m trying to change the default access url for phpMyAdmin from /phpmyadmin to something less common.

After googling, the only file I was able to find and edit was /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf - I changed the default aliases there, but after restarting apache it didn’t seem to make a difference. I was still able to access it via /phpmyadmin and my new alias didn’t work.

Some other sites say I have to edit httpd.conf or https-alias.conf - but I can’t find those files, and there is no alias list in 000-default.conf

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zawlinoozaw

January 13, 2016

You need to add apache2 config : sudo ln -s /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf-available/phpmyadmin.conf sudo a2enconf phpmyadmin.conf sudo service apache2 reload

Mhar Daniel

May 22, 2018

https://www.tecmint.com/change-secure-phpmyadmin-login-url-page/

Feriman

January 23, 2019

I set it based on @mhardaniel tutorial, but I got this below error message in apache log:

[Mon Jan 21 06:25:03.272652 2019] [alias:warn] [pid 763:tid 140451442693312] AH00671: The Alias directive in /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf at line 4 will probably never match because it overlaps an earlier Alias.

How can I fix this?

Thanks!