Can't access phpmyadmin after installation

Question

I'm trying to install phpmyadmin on my new server, following this guide

apt-get install phpmyadmin
nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

then added phpmyadmin to apache configuration:

Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf

and restarted apache:

service apache2 restart

All this by SSH.

But now when i try to access: x.x.x.x/phpmyadmin all that i get is that my browser downloads a file... Can someone help with this?

Answer 1

If you are sure that you do have lamp-stack just open up your terminal and type edit

/etc/apache2/apache2.conf

and paste the following at the end of file

Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf

Save the file and restart using sudo service apache2 restart

You can also visit https://help.ubuntu.com/community/phpMyAdmin for more details.

Answer 2

You can do two things I guess, as I've experienced both of them : 1. you need to add

sudo -H gedit /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

2. Add this line at last or somewhere in code:

Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf

3. restart :

sudo service apache2 restart

but this didn't worked for me(apache2 failed to restart), as it worked for many. Otherwise you can eve try:

ln -s /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/001-phpmyadmin

Or

sudo dpkg-reconfigure phpmyadmin

and under webserver select: apache.