Install PhpMyadmin On Centos

1. Get the latest copy of phpMyAdmin from sourceforge

wget -c http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/files/phpMyAdmin/3.4.9/phpMyAdmin-3.4.9-english.tar.gz  /download

2. Extract the files

tar xvfz phpMyAdmin-3.4.9-english.tar.gz

3. move the extracted files to proper location

mv phpMyAdmin-3.4.9-english.tar.gz /var/www/html/phpmyadmin

4. cd /var/www/html/phpmyadmin
5. Make a copy of configuration files

cp config.sample.inc.php config.inc.php

6. Modify the values vi config.inc.php

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type']=’cookie’; to $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type']=’http’;

7. Restart apache from any of command

service httpd restart – Work for me
/etc/init.d/httpd restart

8. Open browser on server

http://localhost/phpMyAdmin

You may end in following errors
1. 404 Not Found Error
Please make sure you push your phpMyAdmin directory in your webroot. In my case it’s /var/www/html
2. 403 Forbidden Error
I spend good amount of time finding why access is forbidden and finally did following setting

2.1 Go to /etc/httpd/conf.d/
2.2 vi phpMyAdmin.conf
2.3 Add following lines

Order allow,deny
Options Indexes
Allow from all

Still not able to access, try disabling the SElinux
SElinux is extra security layer in Linux and sometimes it provide conflicts for apache to work

• vi /etc/selinux/config
• Modify SELINUX=enforcing  to SELINUX=disabled  //Discuss with your senior. Mine is test server.
• Restart your machine

hit http://localhost/phpMyAdmin prompt for username/password for mysql login

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