Using PHPMyAdmin to administer Amazon RDS

Question

I can\'t get PHPMyAdmin to connect to my Amazon RDS instance. I\'ve granted permissions for my IP address to the DB Security Group which has access to this database I\'m tr

Answer 1

You need to add the RDS instance as an additional server listed on PHPMyAdmin while granting the host PHPMyAdmin access to your RDS instance.

More details from this blog post on How to remotely manage an Amazon RDS instance with PHPMyAdmin:

The one thing I had trouble with was the DB Security Group setup. When you go to add access for an CIDR/IP it provides a recommended value. It took some messing around to determine that this default value isn’t actually what needed to be there. If you’re not able to connect to your instance when it’s all said and done, be sure to double check this value. The IP they provided did not match the IP address that was provided to us by our ISP. Once you’ve created your DB Instance and setup the security group you’re good to go.

I’m going to assume you’ve already got PHPMyAdmin up and running. What you need to do is modify config.inc.php to recognize the new server.