I can't access http://localhost/phpmyadmin/

Question

what you need to do is to add phpmyadmin to the apache configuration:

sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

Add the phpmyadmin config to the file:

Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf

then restart apache:

sudo service apache2 restart

On windows, I think you can just navigate to the apache2 config file and include the phpmyadmin config file as shown above, then restart apache

A cleaner way is to create the new configuration file:

/etc/apache2/conf-available/phpmyadmin.conf

and write the following in it:

Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf

then, soft link the file to the directory /etc/apache2/conf-enabled:

sudo ln -s /etc/apache2/conf-available/phpmyadmin.conf /etc/apache2/conf-enabled

You should use localhost:portnumber/phpmyadmin Here the Portnumber is the number which you set for your web server or if you have not set it until now it is by Default - 80.

Make sure that both apache webserver and MySQL server are running. I had the same failure because I forgot to start my webserver.

when you run Xampp, check the apache port no. ex: if it is displaying port 80, then type

http://localhost:80/phpmyadmin/

After that it will display automatically

http://localhost/phpmyadmin/

I am using Linux Mint : After installing LAMP along with PhpMyAdmin, I linked both the configuration files of Apache and PhpMyAdmin. It did the trick. Following are the commands.

sudo ln -s /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload