Can't connect to phpmyadmin in Bitnami instance hosted by AWS

Question

I\'m trying to connect to phpmyadmin through my Public DNS and I can\'t seem to get it to work.

I\'ve tried following these directions:

Can\'t Access PHPMyA

Answer 1

I faced the same issue. Though I was able to access phpMyAdmin by using the following steps

1. SSH to the server using the following command

   ssh -N -L 8888:127.0.0.1:80 -i YourPemFile.pem bitnami@YourServerIP

2. Then open the following link in your browser

   http://127.0.0.1:8888/phpmyadmin

3. You will see the following page

4. Now just use root and the default wordpress password to login.