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.

Basic Installation

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

Install the required packages:

# apk add lighttpd php7-common php7-session php7-iconv php7-json php7-gd php7-curl php7-xml php7-mysqli php7-imap php7-cgi fcgi php7-pdo php7-pdo_mysql php7-soap php7-xmlrpc php7-posix php7-mcrypt php7-gettext php7-ldap php7-ctype php7-dom php7-simplexml

Configure Lighttpd

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

include "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

Create a directory named webapps

mkdir -p /usr/share/webapps/

Download the source code

cd /usr/share/webapps wget http://files.directadmin.com/services/all/phpMyAdmin/phpMyAdmin-5.0.2-all-languages.tar.gz

Unpack the archive and remove the archive

tar zxvf phpMyAdmin-5.0.2-all-languages.tar.gz rm phpMyAdmin-5.0.2-all-languages.tar.gz

Rename the folder

mv phpMyAdmin-5.0.2-all-languages phpmyadmin

Change the folder permissions

chmod -R 777 /usr/share/webapps/

Create a 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.