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phpMyAdmin on CentOS

  • Posted May 30, 2013

Greetings,

I’m stuck at installing phpMyAdmin, because it seems I do something wrong all the time. I have already installed LAMP and vsftpd+ftp on my droplet (CentOS 6.4). What should my next steps be?

yum install phpMyAdmin

Doesn’t work, as there is no such package.

So I had to upload a .tar archieve with the latest version of phpMyAdmin to my FTP, uncompressed/copied the files over to /var/www/html/. Now is the question what next? I’ve been trying to make config files and access the GUI installer via web browser, but here is where I’m completely lost. Can anyone please write a step by step instruction on how to install the thing starting from this point?

P.S. Also, how will my correct command look like to make a symbolic link for ./phpMyAdmin-VERSION-LANGUAGE/ -> ./phpMyAdmin/ ?

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ghalab.sara.1992 • December 26, 2013

Thank you for this help

Kamal Nasser • October 29, 2013

@vignesh: Please create a new community question. Make sure you include all the commands you have run to install phpmyadmin.

vignesh • October 26, 2013

I followed the steps exactly and still could not make phpmyadmin work. <br> <br>Can anyone help me ?

andy • September 13, 2013

Ah, got it working. <br> <br>I ran ‘sudo yum install php-mbstring’ <br> <br>Thanks!

andy • September 13, 2013

Yes, there is: <br> <br>PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function mb_detect_encoding() in /var/www/html/phpMyAdmin/libraries/php-gettext/gettext.inc on line 177 <br>

Kamal Nasser • September 13, 2013

@andy: Check Apache’s error logs: <br> <br><pre>tail /var/log/httpd/error_log</pre> <br>Are there any errors?

andy • September 12, 2013

I followed these instructions and I’m getting a server error: <br> <br>The website encountered an error while retrieving http://www.andyrench.com/phpMyAdmin/. It may be down for maintenance or configured incorrectly. <br>Error code: 500 <br> <br>I have the LAMP stack installed on my Centos droplet and it’s working fine otherwise. <br> <br>Any ideas?

Kamal Nasser • July 3, 2013

@hypertextsol What error do you get?

hypertextsol • July 3, 2013

everything is running fine, except phpmyadmin

hypertextsol • July 3, 2013

yes @kamal Naseer I have installed exactly as mentioned in that article (except the securing the ssh which was optional)