Question
I fail to understand why PHPmyadmin is forbidden in Nginx
- Posted on January 29, 2018
- NginxUbuntu 16.04
Asked by benqzq
I fail to understand why entrance to PHPmyadmin is forbidden (http://my_ip/phpmyadmin). Here’s what I did to install it:
On a pure Ubuntu 16.04 machine (server, xenial) I’ve installed LEMP this way (MySQL root password setted on install):
apt-get update -y
apt-get upgrade nginx mysql-server php-fpm php-mysql -y
I then installed PMA:
DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get upgrade phpmyadmin php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-gettext -y
ln -s /usr/share/phpmyadmin/ /var/www/html/
chown -R www-data:www-data /usr/share/phpmyadmin/ /var/www/html
chmod -R a-x,a=rX,u+w /usr/share/phpmyadmin/ /var/www/html
As said, when navigating to (http://my_ip/phpmyadmin) I get “Forbidden (403)” HTTP status code.
I really fail to understand what’s wrong from the error log:
directory index of “/var/www/html/phpmyadmin/” is forbidden
Hence I ask what might be the problem?
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I struck to such a problem/solution, when PhpMyAdmin wasn’t opening in the browser, giving “403 Forbidden nginx/1.14.0 (Ubuntu)” error.
I had just missed ‘index.php’ in the type of files list in the 443/secure https section block. That’s it. Whole day went to find it. Google too was unable to find me this solution.
Stumbled across this thread while setting up a LEMP 18.04LTS snapshot. It seemsto match my problem. Turned out I didn’t have index.php defined as a supported index in the site config
index index.php index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;
Makes sense as if it can’t find an index it will try to show directory contents, which is forbidden.
Strange, I can suddenly access PMA login screen without WSOD and without any problem, from any browser.
Without any Nginx conf file added…
There might have been a bug fixed in the background after some apt-get update && apt-get upgrade or after some upgrade by
unattended-upgrades.