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phpMyAdmin is just about the greatest tool if you want to manage your MySQL database. Installation is quite simple, but somewhere something went wrong somehow…

Installation is as simple as:


sudo apt-get install mysql-server
sudo apt-get install apache2
sudo apt-get install php5
sudo apt-get install php5-mysql
sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin


But when I head out to http://localhost/phpmyadmin I get a 404 – Not Found. Delving a bit deeper into the problem, I found the “usual” symlink in /etc/apach2/sites-available (Apache’s site config) is not there.

Head out to /etc/phpmyadmin, there is an apache.conf there, which is just about the stuff Apache eats for config. Great!


sudo ln -s /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf 001-phpmyadmin


makes a symlink to the configuration. I called it 001-phpmyadmin because 000-default already existed (the three digits represent the order in which they are loaded).

Now, restart the Apache server:

sudo apachectl restart


And http://localhost/phpmyadmin works!

Additional troubleshooting:
Cannot log in – during installation, you will be prompted to supply a password for the phpmyadmin user for mysql. Logging in to phpmyadmin using ‘root’ and this password should work
Still don’t get it? – this post on the Ubuntu forums may help.

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