Install phpMyAdmin via the yum package manager. Tested on clean installs of CentOS, Red Hat versions 6 and 7
phpMyAdmin is in the extras repository, use epel-release package to add this repo
yum -y install epel-release
Install phpMyAdmin
yum -y install phpMyAdmin
Move the phpMyAdmin directory to the web server directory:
mv /usr/share/phpMyAdmin /var/www/html/phpMyAdmin
Edit /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpMyAdmin.conf with your favorite editor. Replace the paths created by the yum install, change each “/usr/share/phpMyAdmin” with /var/www/html/phpMyAdmin or use this sed command
sed -i "s|/usr/share/|/var/www/html/|g" /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpMyAdmin.conf
Follow the latest setup instructions at http://docs.phpmyadmin.net
How to allow access to phpMyAdmin from other machines. The default server configuration limits access only to localhost (127.0.0.1). If desired to access from other machines, edit the server config file to allow other machines, change any lines with 127.0.0.1 to your workstation IP or a set of known IP addresses.
In your editor, open /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpMyAdmin.conf Edit the first section, there are two locations that need to change
Restart httpd service and test
service httpd restart
If you receive 403-Forbidden errors after installing phpMyAdmin, the problem is likely caused by SELinux. Run the following command to correct the problem:
Optional, Configure the phpMyAdmin-VCL Table relationships:
After following the documentation on creating the phpMyAdmin Linked-tables infrastructure, you can set up the VCL table relationships. The phpmyadmin.sql file is provided in the mysql directory in the Apache VCL source code. It will add entries to the pma_table_info table in the phpmyadmin database. These entries cause corresponding information to be displayed when you hover over a value in the VCL database.
Import the SQL file into the phpmyadmin database:
mysql phpmyadmin < apache-VCL-2.4/mysql/phpmyadmin.sql