How to Install phpMyAdmin on CentOS Stream 9

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phpMyAdmin is a free software tool written in PHP that is intended to handle the administration of a MySQL or MariaDB database server. You can use phpMyAdmin to perform most administration tasks, including creating a database, running queries, and adding user accounts. In this article, we are going to learn how to install phpMyAdmin on CentOS Stream 9. So, let’s get started.

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Pre-requisites :

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• A system with CentOS Stream 9 installed and running.

• root access to the system.

Once you're all set, we'll proceed with phpMyAdmin installation and configuration.

Install MariaDB Server

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MariaDB is a popular database server. The installation is simple and requires just a few steps as shown.

dnf install mariadb-server mariadb -y

systemctl start mariadb

systemctl enable mariadb

systemctl status mariadb

Install phpMyAdmin

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First, we install the EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) repository,

dnf config-manager --set-enabled crb

dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-9.noarch.rpm

dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-next-release-latest-9.noarch.rpm

Finally, we install the phpMyAdmin package, Using the following command:

dnf install phpmyadmin

phpMyAdmin inserts it's own configuration into the Apache webserver (httpd), to load this new configuration we restart httpd,

systemctl restart httpd

Edit file phpMyAdmin.conf

vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpMyAdmin.conf

Add the "Require all granted" line under the "Require local" line

# dangerous unless properly secured by SSL

Alias /phpMyAdmin /usr/share/phpMyAdmin
Alias /phpmyadmin /usr/share/phpMyAdmin

<Directory /usr/share/phpMyAdmin/>
   AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
   Require local
   Require all granted
</Directory>

<Directory /usr/share/phpMyAdmin/setup/>
   Require local
</Directory>

Now, press the Esc key, and type in :wq! and press the Enter key to save and exit the file.

Enable Firewalld

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Let's allow the firewall rules for http and https,

[root@vps ~]# firewall-cmd --add-service=http --permanent
success
[root@vps ~]# firewall-cmd --add-service=https --permanent
success
[root@vps ~]# firewall-cmd --reload
success
[root@vps ~]#

Now, restart & check the Apache with the following commands:

systemctl restart httpd

systemctl status httpd

Accessing phpMyAdmin

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Now open the IP with /phpmyadmin from your browser, this will redirect you to the phpMyAdmin.

http://192.169.7.180/phpmyadmin

Replace the 192.169.7.180 with the actual IP or domain configured on the server.

Demo screenshot for phpMyadmin:

Now you have successfully installed phpMyAdmin on CentOS Stream 9.