Have trouble installing phpmyadmin on PHP7 Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu)

Question

I installed PHP7 today with

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php-7.0 sudo apt-get install php7.0-cli php7.0-common libapache2-mod-php7.0 php7.0 php7.0-mysql php7.0-fpm 

after this, I got 403 forbidden error when I tried to access phpmyadmin. then I tried to reinstall phpmyadmin with

apt-get install phpmyadmin 

but it still looks for php5 dependencies which arent there anymore:

what can I do to solve this?

Answer 1

Install it via wget and create an alias in Apache. Keep track:

Change to directory /usr/share:

cd /usr/share 

Change to root user:

 sudo su 

Download phpMyAdmin:

wget https://files.phpmyadmin.net/phpMyAdmin/4.5.4.1/phpMyAdmin-4.5.4.1-all-languages.zip 

Unzip it: (you may install unzip first)

unzip phpMyAdmin-4.5.4.1-all-languages.zip 

Rename the folder:

mv phpMyAdmin-4.5.4.1-all-languages phpmyadmin 

Change permissions:

chmod -R 0755 phpmyadmin 

Configure apache so that it can find it correctly:

vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf 

Anywhere after "DocumentRoot /var/www/html" insert these line:

Alias /phpmyadmin "/usr/share/phpmyadmin/" <Directory "/usr/share/phpmyadmin/">      Order allow,deny      Allow from all      Require all granted </Directory> 

Restart Apache:

service apache2 restart 

And you are ready to go!

Just took a screenshot from my current installation for you to validate it works.

Answer 2

phpMyAdmin depends on the extension mbstring.

For Debian users (tested in Ubuntu 15.10),

 sudo apt-get install php7.0-mbstring 

For Fedora and CentOS,

sudo yum install php70w-mbstring