How do I set up phpMyAdmin on a Laravel Homestead box?

Question

I installed it by running sudo apt-get install phpymyadmin and then running

sudo ln -s /usr/share/phpmyadmin/ /usr/share/nginx/html and

Answer 1

Install phpMyAdmin

• SSH into Homestead vagrant box with vagrant ssh and type the following command:

   sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin
  

• When prompted to select the Web server, select apache2 and press Enter, just to get pass it.

• When prompted to config database for phpmyadmin with dbconfig-common, select Yes and press Enter.

• When prompted for Password of the database's administrative user, enter secret and press Enter.

• When prompted for MySQL application password for phpmyadmin, enter secret and press Enter.

• When prompted for Password confirmation, enter secret again and press Enter.

Then Create and config site for Nginx

sudo ln -s /usr/share/phpmyadmin/ /usr/share/nginx/html/phpmyadmin

cd /etc/nginx/sites-available
sudo cp homestead.app phpmyadmin.app

sudo sed -i 's/homestead.app/phpmyadmin.app/g' /etc/nginx/sites-available/phpmyadmin.app
sudo sed -i 's/home\/vagrant\/Code\/Laravel\/public/usr\/share\/nginx\/html\/phpmyadmin/g' /etc/nginx/sites-available/phpmyadmin.app

sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/phpmyadmin.app /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/phpmyadmin.app
sudo service nginx restart
sudo service php5-fpm retart

Adding phpMyAdmin.app to your hosts file

 127.0.0.1   phpmyadmin.app

Navigate to http://phpmyadmin.app:8000 and you should now see phpMyAdmin login page.

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