Ubuntu 14 - Nginx - PHP5-fpm : installed phpmyadmin but 403 forbidden access - nginx

Question

Nginx and PHP5-FPM are installed and running well ...
# I can access both http://www.example.com and http://www.example.com/info.php
$ ls -la /var/www/html
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 868 Nov 1 08:16 index.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21 Nov 1 08:13 info.php
I installed phpmyadmin and created a symlink to phpmyadmin files
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Nov 1 08:37 phpmyadmin -> /usr/share/phpmyadmin
but trying to get http://www.example.com/phpmyadmin => I get a 403 Forbidden
using a symlink, I should not have to add anything related to phpmyadmin into my nginx.conf ... what could be missing ?
Update 1 : adding index.php to the uri brings the login panel
http://www.example.com/phpmyadmin/index.php
what should I add to my default con file to get it directly ... I guess my try file is not valid ..
here is my default nginx site con file
server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;
root /var/www/html;
index index.php, index.html index.htm;
server_name example.com;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ index.html index.php =404;
}
error_page 404 /404.html;
error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
location = /50x.html {
root /var/www/html;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
}
}

Answer 1

it's running fine after adding the following location :
location /phpmyadmin {
index index.php;
}

Answer 2

That's my solution for this issue:
Step 1: You should SSH and run command
sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/default
Step 2: find block code
server {
....
}
and then insert before "}" of server block
location /phpmyadmin {
index index.php;
}
It look like this
server{
...(your default)...
location /phpmyadmin {
index index.php;
}
}
Hope this is your!

Answer 3

I have added:
location /pma/ {
alias /usr/share/phpmyadmin/;
index index.html index.htm index.php;
location ~ ^/pma(.+\.php)$ {
alias /usr/share/phpmyadmin$1;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock; #OR fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /usr/share/phpmyadmin$1;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
}
}
So that when the user access the directory /pma/ they get directed to the /usr/share/phpmyadmin which is a slightly 'safer' option too! As previously I was having the 403 error too!
But the main fix for the 403 error is actually implementing the line:
index index.html index.htm index.php;

Answer 4

to nginx.conf file or default ( ../sites-available/default )
location /phpmyadmin {
root /usr/share/;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
location ~ ^/phpmyadmin/(.+\.php)$ {
try_files $uri =404;
root /usr/share/;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
}
location ~* ^/phpmyadmin/(.+\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico|html|xml|txt))$ {
root /usr/share/;
}
}

Answer 5

Here are a couple things you could try. One is the disable_symlinks directive:
location /phpmyadmin {
disable_symlinks off;
}
Another option would be to use an alias instead of a symlink:
location /phpmyadmin {
alias /usr/share/phpmyadmin;
}

Answer 6

Lose the comma and you're fine
index index.php, index.html index.htm;