PhpPgAdmin

What is phpPgAdmin?

phpPgAdmin is a web-based administration tool for PostgreSQL. It is perfect for PostgreSQL DBAs, newbies and hosting services.

Set up phpPgAdmin on Alpine Linux

This document will be a very quick c/p guide to setup phpPgAdmin on Alpine linux. What we will setup is the following:

• Lighttpd with PHP
• postgresql
• phpPgAdmin

Basic Installation

For installing the additional packages first activate community packages and update the package index

Install the required packages:

# apk add lighttpd php82 fcgi php82-cgi

Configure Lighttpd

Edit lighttpd.conf (/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf) and uncomment the line:

Contents of /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

... include "mod_fastcgi.conf" ...

Edit mod_fastcgi.conf (/etc/lighttpd/mod_fastcgi.conf), find and change /usr/bin/php-cgi to /usr/bin/php-cgi82.

Contents of /etc/lighttpd/mod_fastcgi.conf

... "bin-path" => "/usr/bin/php-cgi82" # php-cgi ...

Start lighttpd service and add it to default runlevel

# rc-service lighttpd start # rc-update add lighttpd default

Install extra packages

apk add postgresql postgresql-client php-pgsql

Configuring postgresql

/etc/init.d/postgresql setup

Starting http service and adding to boot

/etc/init.d/postgresql start && rc-update add postgresql default

Installing phpPgAdmin

Install phpPgAdmin

Make webapps folder

mkdir /usr/share/webapps/ -p

Download

cd /usr/share/webapps/ wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/phppgadmin/phpPgAdmin-4.2.3.tar.gz

Unpack and delete tar file

tar zxvf phpPgAdmin-4.2.3.tar.gz rm phpPgAdmin-4.2.3.tar.gz

Change Folder Name

mv phpPgAdmin-4.2.3 phppgadmin

Change Config File Name

cp /usr/share/webapps/phppgadmin/conf/config.inc.php-dist /usr/share/webapps/phppgadmin/conf/config.inc.php

Change Folder Persmissions

chmod -R 777 /usr/share/webapps/

Make Symlink to the phpPgAdmin folder

ln -s /usr/share/webapps/phppgadmin/ /var/www/localhost/htdocs/phppgadmin

Log on your phpPgAdmin

Browse to: http://WEBSERVER_IP_ADDRESS/phppgadmin and logon to phpPgAdmin using postgresql user and password. And enjoy this nice and useful tool.

Note: If you are using the Alpine ACF, or if you change the port in the lighttpd.conf file, the go to the port you set. e.g: if you set the port to 8080, then browse to: http://WEBSERVER_IP_ADDRESS:8080/phppgadmin