Nginx can't find phpMyAdmin - nginx

Question

Hello I have installed the newest stable Version of Nginex (1.4.4) and want to install also phpMyAdmin, unfortunately the following error appears when I try to open phpMyAdmin in my browser through http:// 192 . . . /phpmyadmin:
404 Not Found
nginx/1.4.4
What exactly is the reason that Nginx can't find the phpMyAdmin file?
This is the content of my /etc/nginx/nginx.conf file:
user nginx;
worker_processes 4;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log warn;
pid /var/run/nginx.pid;
events {
worker_connections 1024;
}
http {
include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
'$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
'"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log main;
sendfile on;
#tcp_nopush on;
keepalive_timeout 65;
#gzip on;
include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
}
Many Greetings

Answer 1

It's really not a good idea to make a symbolic in your document root, that's just asking for trouble having a phmyadmin shortcut in www.
The right way to do it is to create a file called php and add to /etc/nginx/sites-available. You can copy the file below but change the port number to something else.
server {
listen 30425;
# Don't want to log accesses.
#access_log /dev/null main;
access_log /var/log/nginx/php.acces_log main;
error_log /var/log/nginx/php.error_log info;
root /usr/share/phpmyadmin;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
error_page 401 403 404 /404.php;
location ~ .*.php$ {
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param SERVER_NAME $http_host;
fastcgi_ignore_client_abort on;
}
}
Now you need to make symbolic link to sites enabled directory
ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/php//etc/nginx/sites-enabled
now you need to add this code to Logging Settings part of nginx.conf
log_format main ‘$remote_addr – $remote_user [$time_local] ‘
‘”$request” $status $body_bytes_sent “$http_referer” ‘
‘”$http_user_agent” “$http_x_forwarded_for”‘ ;
Now you can access your phpmyadmin with http://example.com:30425

Answer 2

I have followed the instructions on https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-phpmyadmin-on-a-lemp-server and linked nginx and phpMyAdmin through the following command:
sudo ln -s /usr/share/phpmyadmin/ /usr/share/nginx/html
(the folder "www" was replaced in the newer versions of Nginx through "html")
sudo service nginx restart
If I now try to start phpMyAdmin through
"http:// 192 . . . /phpmyadmin"
the following error appears in my browser:
403 Forbidden
nginx/1.4.4
If I try to start phpMyAdmin through
"http:// 192 . . . /phpmyadmin/index.php"
the index.php file only gets downloaded.
Many Greetings

Answer 3

The answers provided here did not help me for reasons unknown. I suspect that other parts of my conf file ruled out going into the phpmyadmin directory.
Not wanting to spend too long fixing it to work I simply copied my working conf file from www.example.com to phpmyadmin.example.com and set the directory to /usr/share/phpmyadmin. I then did nginx -s reload and I was good to go without ever having to get to the bottom of the 403/502 errors that I encountered doing it properly. I also believe that http://phpmyadmin.example.com is more secure from random hackers trying their scripts than the http://www.example.com/phpmyadmin domain, however it does entail having the wildcard setup correctly for the DNS for your domain, i.e. so that the address resolves to your server.
Hope this helps anyone frustrated in the simple task of getting phpmyadmin working with nginx.

Answer 4

As user1941083 explain.
You just need to create a symbolic link between phpMyAdmin and your site’s directory.
sudo ln -s /usr/share/phpmyadmin/ /usr/share/nginx/www
And after that, modify nginx setting in /etc/nginx/sites-available.
Change :
index index.html index.html;
to :
index index.html index.html index.php;

Answer 5

Simply try by using http://domain-name-or-ip-address/phpmyadmin/index.php
Sometime Nginx do not use index.php automatically, we have to tell it, either by changing location in nginx.conf file or by adding index.php manually into url, just like above.

Answer 6

I know this is late though but I had the same problem after following some tutorials and suggestions online but to no avail. I also tried #STH answer on this page but still error still exist.
I had to restart the following services:
sudo systemctl restart nginx.service
sudo systemctl restart php-fpm
THIS DID THE TRICK: Configure the Daemons to Start at Boot, to ensure that all of the LEMP programs start automatically after any server restarts:
sudo systemctl enable nginx mysqld php-fpm

Answer 7

Try to create the symbolic link between the phpmyadmin location and nginx www:
sudo ln -s /usr/share/phpmyadmin/ /usr/share/nginx/html
after this you can get the 403 Forbidden but should add the index.php inside the server tag where index.html and others are:
/etc/nginx/sites-available/default
and then restart nginx