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FINDING THE phpmyadmin Authentication details .

Posted on April 23, 2017
Apache PHP PHP Frameworks Ubuntu
Asked by geeber05

I installed the phpmyadmin with this https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-secure-phpmyadmin-on-ubuntu-14-04 now whenever i am going to this login to my phpmyadmin there authentication enabled with https://everythingisaffordable.com:22222/db/pma and i tried everything to login with login passwords that i setup … but nothing works… Please help to find the login details for the htaccess authentication. Thanks in advance

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Jonathan Tittle • April 23, 2017

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@geeber05

On newer versions of Ubuntu, you shouldn’t need to use php5enmod as the package manager, apt, will handle enabling PHP modules. So if you receive an error when trying to run that command, that shouldn’t be a cause for concern.

When you ran this command:

htpasswd -c /etc/phpmyadmin/.htpasswd username

You should have been prompted to enter a password and confirm said password for each user that you create. For example, if I wanted to add geeber as a user, I’d run:

htpasswd -c /etc/phpmyadmin/.htpasswd geeber

… then enter a password and confirm the password.

Once that’s done, when visiting the URL you provided, I’d use geeber as the username as well as the password I setup when running the above command.

Once you’re past that authentication prompt, the credentials you’d use for phpMyAdmin depend on what you setup when creating your databases. You can also use root and the root password for MySQL.

geeber05 • April 23, 2017

I tried that not works for me … so now i have rebuild the droplet . Could you please tell me the best way to install the phpmyadmin