How to install phpMyAdmin – 2.11.3 on CentOS 5.

After , I installed PHP5, Apache2 and MySQL completed. I want to maintain MySQL service by phpMyAdmin program. This is solution of how to install phpMyAdmin 2.11.3 on CentOS 5.

  1. $ su -
  2. # cd /var/www/html
  3. # wget -c http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/phpmyadmin/
    phpMyAdmin-2.11.3-english.tar.gz?download
  4. # tar xvfz phpMyAdmin-2.11.3-english.tar.gz
  5. # mv phpMyAdmin-2.11.3-english phpmyadmin
  6. # cd phpmyadmin
  7. # cp config.sample.inc.php config.inc.php
  8. # vi config.inc.php
    :
    $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = ‘http‘; # default is cookies
    :
  9. # service httpd restart

You can test by open phpmyadmin by this link :

http://your.domain.com/phpmyadmin/

You should be find pop up for insert your user name and password.

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30 Responses to How to install phpMyAdmin – 2.11.3 on CentOS 5.

  1. joel says:

    Thanks so much for this step-by-step process. This really helps the new people that are just starting out on Unix and learning Unix.

  2. Jonny says:

    You do not need step 9 – the httpd server does not need to be restarted.

  3. admin says:

    Jonny,
    Thank your guide. :)

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  5. Cia says:

    Greate guide,it helped me very much thank you

  6. Nitin M. says:

    Thanks for the installation steps

    Regards,
    Nitin

  7. Sudeer says:

    Hi,

    After i did all the above installation steps and when i type the given URL in the browser,

    http://localhost/phpmyadmin/

    the page is loading for a very long time and finally got the below error.
    —————————————————————————————————————–
    Bad Request

    Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
    Size of a request header field exceeds server limit.

    Cache-Control: max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, max-age=0, 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    —————————————————————————————————————–
    Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) Server at localhost.localdomain Port 80
    —————————————————————————————————————–

    Please help me to slve this issue,thanks for your help.

  8. Bhargav says:

    Hello Folks,
    It’s Working

    Thanks

  9. fabirodz says:

    yayy it worked

  10. hotcoder says:

    Good tutorial, but I’m getting the error “You don’t have permission to “phpmyadmin” server folder. I’ve tried chown -R and chmod 0700 commands but in vain.

  11. aoddy says:

    What is your owner when you changed owner by chown command ?

  12. cd /var/html/www/

    or

    cd /var/www/html/ This is my dir settings when I installed Apache,Mysql and PHP

  13. aoddy says:

    Hi Donald,
    Your dir is correct !!! . :D

  14. kickass says:

    You are better locating phpmyadmin in /usr/share then you do a link in www

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

  15. Mustapha says:

    Hello

    I’m just not sure about this

    :
    $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = ‘http‘; # default is cookies
    :

    What should I do after I did vi to config.inc.php to the file??

    Thank you

  16. aoddy says:

    Hi Mustapha,
    You don’t do anything except press F5 button on your web browser.

  17. Chika says:

    Really helpful!!

  18. hellx says:

    Hello,

    my php version 5.3..im writing my browser adress line http://localhost/phpmyadmin
    but have this message : PHP 5.2+ is required…why ?..please help me

  19. martinparks says:

    Hey hellx, that happen to me as well, the new version 3.xx of phpmyadmin needs PHP 5.2+ if you don’t want to upgrade your PHP you will need to use version 2.xx

  20. hellx says:

    hey martinparks, already my php version 5.3.0 and version 3.xx phpmyadmin must run my system. But its not runing. What is the problem ?

  21. sijagur says:

    thanks for your info….

  22. Dschingi says:

    Have same prob using PHP 5.2.9:

    PHP 5.2+ is required…

    Has someone a solution?

  23. worseo says:

    Hi guys, thanks so much. I am new to linux. I follow the steps but this is the error I get.

    phpMyAdmin – Error

    Cannot load mysql extension. Please check your PHP configuration. – Documentation

  24. worseo says:

    I follow the steps but still have the below error. Can anybody help?

    phpMyAdmin – Error

    Cannot load mysql extension. Please check your PHP configuration. – Documentation

  25. Ben says:

    I downloaded the latest phpMyAdmin-3.2.4-rc1-english.tar.gz and installed it that way instead of the wget.
    When i open a firefox it comes up with
    Welcome to phpMyAdmin 2.11.5 not 3.2.4
    Also below the language selection it says
    Error
    The configuration file now needs a secret passphrase
    (blowfish_secret).

    What does this mean?
    I searched the config file and found a line like this
    $cfg['blowfish_secret'] = ‘ ‘; /*YOU MUST FILL IN THIS FOR COOKIE AUTH! */
    I entered a password inbetween the ‘ ‘ but it still comes up with the above error.

    Whats going on there?

  26. thanks a lot my friend. It was really easy to get the job done.

  27. ari says:

    hi,

    mate, i’m a bit lost.

    why dont your tut work for me?

    when here:

    http://localhost/html/phpmyadmin/

    i get all the direcory file listings – no phpmyadmin.

    when here,:

    http://localhost/phpmyadmin

    i get file not found?

    plz help.

    tanx.

  28. joel says:

    i can’t access phpmyadmin,hv some error”forbidden”
    you dont have permission to access/phpmyadmin on this server

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