Hi,

Good job getting as far as you have. I checked out the tutorial you linked and the very last step it illustrates is for something known generally as “http authentication.” This is the username/password login box that pops up in the browser:

https://assets.digitalocean.com/articles/phpmyadmin_1404/apache_auth.png
Example graphic from tutorial

Were you able to follow all of the steps in the tutorial, including Step 3?

Step 3 — Securing Your phpMyAdmin Instance

This will provide a password prompt before the phpmyadmin page loads, effectively “hiding” it from the public.

If you did follow all the steps, sometimes your browser can cache or save the HTTP AUTH information you entered in previously - try accessing your phpmyadmin from a private or incognito browser window to test if you get a fresh login popup.

Hope this helps and good luck! Let us know how it goes.

There’s never enough security :) The tutorial walks you through the bare minimum as not doing that minimum will almost definitely lead to some kind of exploit being used against you.

I did have at least one more suggestion and that would be to change the URL from /phpmyadmin to /somethinglessobvious, that way itd be even less likely anyone would ever see that you had a protected page up and wonder about it.

Cheers and good luck!