How to Install PHPMyAdmin on Cloudways

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Following are the steps to launch a separate PHPStack application when installing PHPMyAdmin on the current server.

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It’s recommended to launch a separate PHPStack application for the PHPMyAdmin installation on that server.

Following are the steps required to install PHPMyAdmin:

How to Install PHPMyAdmin on Cloudways

Step #1 — Connecting to Your Application

First, connect to your PHPStack application using SSH and navigate to the public_html folder with this command. Here folder name is the name of your PHPStack application.

cd applications/foldername/public_html

Step #2 — Downloading PHPMyAdmin

Next, download the PHPMyAdmin using the following command.

Tip
Please be sure to check the PHPMyAdmin updated version name and modify the following command accordingly.

wget https://files.phpmyadmin.net/phpMyAdmin/5.2.0/phpMyAdmin-5.2.0-english.zip

Next, unzip the folder using the following command.

unzip phpMyAdmin-5.2.0-english.zip

Next, rename the PHPMyAdmin folder using the following command.

mv phpMyAdmin-5.2.0-english phpmyadmin

Now locate this folder from the browser to use PHPMyAdmin, for example, http://phpstack-123.cloudwaysapps.com/phpmyadmin.

Important

If you need to access databases on a different server using PHPMyAdmin, you must also install PHPMyAdmin on that server.