PhpMyAdmin
What is phpMyAdmin?
phpMyAdmin is a free software tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the World Wide Web. phpMyAdmin supports a wide range of operations with MySQL. The most frequently used operations are supported by the user interface (managing databases, tables, fields, relations, indexes, users, permissions, etc), while you still have the ability to directly execute any SQL statement.
Set up phpMyAdmin on Alpine Linux
This document will be a very quick c/p guide to setup phpMyAdmin on Alpine linux. What we will setup is the following:
- Lighttpd with PHP
- Mysql
- phpMyAdmin
Install lighttpd, PHP and MySql
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
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
Start lighttpd service and add it to default runlevel
# rc-service lighttpd start # rc-update add lighttpd default
Install extra packages:
apk add mysql mysql-client php-mysql php-mysqli
Configuring MySql
/usr/bin/mysql_install_db --user=mysql /etc/init.d/mysql start && rc-update add mysql default /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'password'
Installing phpMyAdmin
Download
cd /tmp wget http://files.directadmin.com/services/all/phpMyAdmin/phpMyAdmin-3.4.5-all-languages.tar.gz
Unpack
tar zxvf phpMyAdmin-3.4.5-all-languages.tar.gz
Create folder
mkdir /usr/share/webapps/phpmyadmin/ -p
Move to Folder
mv phpMyAdmin-3.4.5-all-languages/* /usr/share/webapps/phpmyadmin
Change Folder Permissions
chmod -R 777 /usr/share/webapps/phpmyadmin/
Make Symlink to the phpMyAdmin folder
ln -s /usr/share/webapps/phpmyadmin/ /var/www/localhost/htdocs/phpmyadmin
Log on your phpMyAdmin
Browse to: http://WEBSERVER_IP_ADDRESS/phpmyadmin and logon to phpMyAdmin using your MySQL user and password.