PhpMyAdmin got 404 not found error on nginx ubuntu 16.04

April 4, 2017 60.1k views
Nginx Linux Commands Ubuntu 16.04
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By:
javadroid

Hello Digital Oceans,
I’m using ubuntu 16.04 and configured LEMP with this tutorial on it. I tried to add phpMyAdmin with this tutorial , but when I tried to access /phpmyadmin route, I got 404 error. here is my default site-available config file: 

server {
        listen 80 default_server;
        listen [::]:80 default_server;

        root /var/www/html;

        index index.php index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;

        server_name **My_IP_ADDRESS**;

        location / {
                try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
        }

        location ~ \.php$ {
                include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
                fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
        }

        location ~ /\.ht {
                deny all;
        }
}

Am i miss something?
Thank you,
JavaDroid :)

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6 Answers
jtittle1 April 4, 2017

@javadroid

The symlink created in that guide points to /usr/share/nginx/www while your root directive points to another directory. Unless you specify another location block, NGINX doesn’t technically know that the directory exists, and doesn’t know where to route the incoming request.

First, remove the symlink you just created by running:

rm -rf /usr/share/nginx/www

That won’t delete phpMyAdmin, it’ll just delete the symlink. Now we’ll create a new one using:

sudo ln -s /usr/share/phpmyadmin/ /var/www/html/phpmyadmin

Since you’ve set root to /var/www/html, that’s your “home” directory or root path that your server block uses. What the above command does is create a symlink from where the phpMyAdmin files are to your root directory.

Once the new symlink is there, you should be able confirm that by running:

ls -al /var/www/html

That should produce something that looks like:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   22 Apr  4 14:31 phpmyadmin -> /usr/share/phpmyadmin/

Which means the symlink is valid and should now work when you visit:

http://IP_ADDR/phpmyadmin

Where IP_ADDR is your IP address.

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  • javadroid April 4, 2017

    Thaaanks man !!! it works !!

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  • phpdeveloperdeb May 3, 2017

    Hi,
    I am very new in LEMP and installed all expect phpmyadmin and working fine. I followed above steps after getting 404 not found error for phpmyadmin but still same issue. help is appreciated.

    Thanks.

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  • nadbenha May 21, 2019

    Hi Jtitle,

    I hope you are fine,

    I have done this and when I do:
    ls -al /var/www/html

    I get

    drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 21 11:03 .
    drwxr-xr-x 9 www-data root 4096 May 21 09:33 ..
    -rw-r–r– 1 root root 612 Jan 15 07:04 index.nginx-debian.html
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 May 21 11:03 phpmyadmin -> /usr/share/phpmyadmin

    However I tried https://IP_ADDR/phpmyadmin

    I land in a Wordpress page

    I see “OOPS! THAT PAGE CAN’T BE FOUND. ”

    Here my nginx config file :

    server {
    listen 80 default_server;

    servername example.com;
    return 301 https://$server    name$request_uri;
    }

    server {
    listen 443;
    ssl on;
    sslcertificate /etc/ssl/cert.crt;
    ssl    certificate_key /etc/ssl/mykey.key;

    accesslog /var/log/nginx/nginx.vhost.access.log;
    error    log /var/log/nginx/nginx.vhost.error.log;

    clientmaxbody_size 200M;

    root /var/www;
    index index.php index.html index.htm;

    location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?q=$uri&$args;
    }

    error_page 404 /404.html;

    error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
    location = /50x.html {
    root /usr/share/nginx/html;
    }

    location ~ .php$ {
    tryfiles $uri =404;
    fastcgi    splitpathinfo ^(.+.php)(/.+)$;
    fastcgipass unix:/var/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
    fastcgi    index index.php;
    include fastcgiparams;
    fastcgi    param SCRIPTFILENAME $documentroot$fastcgiscriptname;
    }

    }

    Thank you in advance.

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phpdeveloperdeb May 3, 2017

Hi,
I am very new in LEMP and installed all expect phpmyadmin and working fine. I followed above steps after getting 404 not found error for phpmyadmin but still same issue. help is appreciated.

Thanks.

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  • ArfanMirza May 16, 2017

    have you fixed or facing same issue ?

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    • phpdeveloperdeb May 17, 2017

      HI @ArfanMirza,
      Thanks for your reply.
      I am having the same issue so I am using Mysql Workbench.
      Here is my nginx.conf server block.

      server {
      listen 80 defaultserver;
      listen [::]:80 default      server;

          root /var/www;
    index index.php index.html index.htm;

    server_name localhost;

    location / {
        autoindex on;
            autoindex_exact_size off;
        try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
        # With php7.0-cgi alone:
        #fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
        # With php7.0-fpm:
        fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
    }
}

      Thanks in advance

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      • sejshah07 July 20, 2017

        You have to remove old symlink like this :
        sudo rm -rf /usr/share/nginx/html
        and create a new one like this:
        sudo ln -s /usr/share/phpmyadmin/ /var/www/phpmyadmin
        as your root is
        root /var/www;
        and not
        root /var/www/html;

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ArfanMirza May 17, 2017

Here is my code block

server {
    listen 80 default_server;
    listen [::]:80 default_server;

    root /var/www/html;
    index index.php index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;

    server_name auliyakaram.com www.auliyakaram.com;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
    }

    location ~ /\.ht {
        deny all;
    }
}

Follow this

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/phpmyadmin-got-404-not-found-error-on-nginx-ubuntu-16-04

First, remove the symlink you just created by running:

rm -rf /usr/share/nginx/www

That won’t delete phpMyAdmin, it’ll just delete the symlink. Now we’ll create a new one using:

sudo ln -s /usr/share/phpmyadmin/ /var/www/html/phpmyadmin

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-secure-phpmyadmin-with-nginx-on-an-ubuntu-14-04-server

AND

sudo php5enmod mcrypt ==> if failed then
locate *enmod
You will find the enmod name if installed with php, i found this
/usr/sbin/phpenmod
so execute ’sudo phpenmod mcrypt’

sudo service php5-fpm restart ==> if failed then
locate *-fpm
You will find the correct fpm name i found this
/etc/init.d/php7.0-fpm
then
executesudo service php7.0-fpm restart

finally then

http://server_domain_or_IP/phpmyadmin

Now hopefully, you will get phpmyadmin home page.

But after login may be it give 404 error! dont worry just go to browser url and append phpmyadmin again before index.php?token=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

http://server_domain_or_IP/index.php?token=xxxxxx to http://server_domain_or_IP/phpmyadmin

If still error, just let me know, i am here for you any time!

How To Install and Secure phpMyAdmin with Nginx on an Ubuntu 14.04 Server
by Justin Ellingwood
Administering relational databases from the command line can be a daunting proposition for many people. A project called phpMyAdmin aims to alleviate this issue by providing an easy to use web interface for MySQL. In this guide, we'll discuss how to install and secure phpMyAdmin on top of a LEMP (Linux, Nginx, MySQL, and PHP) stack on an Ubuntu 14.04 server.
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hfcordoba82 January 16, 2018

gracias me ha funcionado correctamente

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bdspice February 2, 2018

I had nginx, phpmyadmin, mariadb, php-fpm on a centos 7. now i just update php5 to php7. and phpmyadmin is not found. so i followed all your steps.even restart nginx, php-fpm. ls -l showing phpmyadmin in my server location directory. but in browser its showing 404. its chown by root:root and chmod 777. phpmyadmin -> /usr/share/phpmyadmin.
i know upgrading to php7 uninstall old one, so i download and properly extract phpmyadmin in /usr/share/ directory.
no error log found in php/nginx error log files. any idea??

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petloclaravel March 13, 2018

Hello Digital Oceans, I had nginx, phpmyadmin, mysql, php7.2-fpm on a Ubuntu
in browser on 159.89.106.31/phpmyadmin - “couldn’t find this page”

I can not configure phpmyadmin
Help me, what am I doing wrong?

My /etc/nginx/sites-available/default
server {
listen 80 defaultserver;
listen [::]:80 defaultserver;
root /var/www/html/public;
index index.html index.htm index.php;
servername 159.89.106.31;
location / {

tryfiles $uri $uri/ /index.php$isargs$args;
}

location ~ .php$ {
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;

fastcgipass unix:/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
}

}

My /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

user www-data;
errorlog /var/log/nginx.errorlog info;
worker_processes auto;
pid /run/nginx.pid;

events {
worker_connections 768;

}

http {
##
# Basic Settings
##
disablesymlinks off;
sendfile on;
tcpnopush on;
tcpnodelay on;
keepalivetimeout 65;
typeshashmaxsize 2048;
include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
defaulttype application/octet-stream;
sslprotocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2; # Dropping SSLv3, ref: POODLE
sslpreferserverciphers on;
accesslog /var/log/nginx/access.log;
errorlog /var/log/nginx/error.log;
gzip on;
gzip_disable “msie6”;
include /etc/nginx/conf.d/.conf;
include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/;
}

I add link sudo ln -s /usr/share/phpmyadmin/ /var/www/html/phpmyadmin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Mar 13 07:38 phpmyadmin -> /usr/share/ph pmyadmin/

Add /etc/nginx/sites-available/default, copy this script in server{ ..copy here.. }
location /phpmyadmin {
root /usr/share/;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
location ~ ^/phpmyadmin/(.+.php)$ {
tryfiles $uri =404;
root /usr/share/;
fastcgipass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgiindex index.php;
fastcgiparam SCRIPTFILENAME $documentroot$fastcgiscriptname;
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
}
location ~* ^/phpmyadmin/(.+.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico|html|xml|txt))$ {
root /usr/share/;
}
}
location /phpMyAdmin {
rewrite ^/* /phpmyadmin last;
}
in browser on 159.89.106.31/phpmyadmin 502 Bad Gateway

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  • petloclaravel March 13, 2018

    working version
    Attention - php7.2-fpm.

    server {
    listen 80 defaultserver;
    listen [::]:80 default    server;
    root /var/www/html/public;

    index index.html index.htm index.php;
    servername IPaddresyouserver ;
    location / {
    tryfiles $uri $uri/ /index.php$isargs$args;
    }

    location ~ .php$ {
    include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;

    fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
    }
    location /phpmyadmin {
    root /usr/share; 

        location ~ \.php$ {
    include fastcgi_params;
    include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
    fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
    }   
    }   
location ~ \.php$ {
    include fastcgi_params;
    include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
    fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
}

    }

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