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Installed PhpMyAdmin On Nginx For Drupal But I Get 404 Error

Posted on January 8, 2015

I created a new droplet with the Drupal application and the DO system chose the nginx web server. I needed to install phpmyadmin so I followed the DO tutorial on how to setup phpmyadmin on nginx and installed phpmyadmin and also create a symbolic link it ( sudo ln -s /usr/share/phpmyadmin /usr/share/nginx/html ) but going to http://my-ip/phpmyadmin gives a 404 error.

I have never used nginx before, what can I do to fix this please. Thanks.

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Ryan Quinn

June 10, 2016

This question was answered by @FireDart:

I have to ask, did you restart nginx?
$ sudo service nginx restart
As well phpMyAdmin is based of php. Did you configure php in your server {} block?
$ sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/default
Check for location ~\.php$ { }
server {
   . . .
   . . .
   other configs....
   . . .
   . . .
   location ~ \.php$ {
       try_files $uri =404;
       fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
       fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
       fastcgi_index index.php;
       fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
       include fastcgi_params;
   }
}
Then restart:
$ sudo service nginx restart
I installed nginx & php my self and did not use the automatic installer so I’m not 100% sure how it differs.

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