Nginx with phpmyadmin wrong redirect after login

Question

I\'m setting up phpMyAdmin with nginx. I can visit phpMyAdmin at http://localhost/phpmyadmin. However, when I logged in, the URL is redirected to http://localhost/sql.php instea

Answer 1

I have actually been through so many solutions on StackOverflow today and sadly none of which work and some even given some horrid recommendations. What's scary is how many I came across that were marked as answers.

I just did a brand new Ubuntu 16.04 LEMP server, everything cleanly installed this morning Nginx, mySQL, PHP7.0 and PhpMyAdmin.

This problem of redirecting to

h**p://my.server.ip/

after logging into phpymadmin instead of

h**p://my.server.ip/phpmyadmin

is nothing actually to do with the cgi.fix_pathinfo being set to 0 as recommended by all those guides you read. Read up a little more on why it should be set to 0 in your php.ini file and don't just go and disable it as above.

So in other words leave (as recommended to you) cgi.fix_pathinfo = 0 in your config file for PHP.

THE FIX from this web site (the only one with the correct answer) is to add the following to your /etc/nginx/sites-available/default configuration file. Then restart Nginx ... works immediately, no more re-directing back to root after login.

# Phpmyadmin Configurations
    location /phpmyadmin {
       root /usr/share/;
       index index.php index.html index.htm;
       location ~ ^/phpmyadmin/(.+\.php)$ {
               try_files $uri =404;
               root /usr/share/;
               fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
               fastcgi_index index.php;
               fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
               include fastcgi_params;
       }
       location ~* ^/phpmyadmin/(.+\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico|html|xml|txt))$ {
               root /usr/share/;
       }
   }

   location /phpMyAdmin {
       rewrite ^/* /phpmyadmin last;
   }