Here is how to install the latest release of phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu Linux. phpMyAdmin 5 is released with many new features and improvements. With this release, they are removing support of old PHP versions (5.5, 5.6, 7.0, and HHVM). These versions are outdated and are no longer supported by the PHP team.
phpMyAdmin 5
Version 5.0 includes many coding improvements that modernize the interface. Many of these changes are transparent to users, but make the code easier to maintain.
Some of the changes and new features include:
1. Enable columns names by default for CSV exports
2. Add Metro theme
3. Automatically add the index when creating an auto increment column
4. Improvements to exporting views
5. Prompt the user for confirmation before running an UPDATE query with no WHERE clause
6. Improvements to how errors are show to the user (including allowing easier copying of the error text to the clipboard)
7. Added keystrokes to clear the line (ctrl+l) and clear the entire console window (ctrl+u)
8. Use charset ‘windows-1252’ when export format is MS Excel
There are several more changes, please refer to the ChangeLog file included with the release for full details.
Known shortcomings:
Due to changes in the MySQL authentication method, PHP versions prior to 7.4 are unable to authenticate to a MySQL 8.0 or newer server (our tests show the problem actually began with MySQL 8.0.11).
This relates to a PHP bug https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=76243. There is a workaround, that is to set your user account to use the current-style password hash method, mysql_native_password.
This unfortunate lack of coordination has caused the incompatibility to affect all PHP applications, not just phpMyAdmin. For more details, you can see our bug tracker item at https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/issues/14220.
The team suggest upgrading your PHP installation to take advantage of the authentication methods.
Downloads are available now at https://phpmyadmin.net/downloads/
Before installing phpMyAdmin
some basic requirements before installing phpMyAdmin 5:
1. A LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) installed
2. PHP 5.2.0 or newer
3. The PHP mysql or mysqli extensions
4. MySQL 5.0.1 or newer
Install phpMyAdmin from Ubuntu Packages
Run the following command to install phpMyAdmin from the default Ubuntu Packages:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install phpmyadmin php-mbstring php-gettext
NOTE 1: While the intallation process, you will be asked few questions to configure the installation.
NOTE 2: During the installation process; when the prompt appears, “apache2” is highlighted – but not selected. Hit SPACE, TAB, and then ENTER to select Apache. This is very important.
1. For the server selection, choose apache2
2. Select Yes; when to use dbconfig-common to set the database
3. Confirm a MySQL application password for phpMyAdmin
If all is done, the installation process will successfully add the phpMyAdmin Apache configuration file into the /etc/apache2/conf-enabled/ directory. Here, you will need to do enable the mbstring PHP extension. To do so, run the following commands:
sudo phpenmod mbstring
sudo systemctl restart apache2
phpMyAdmin is now installed and configured.
Enable PHP mcrypt Module
Run the following commands to check the PHP mcrypt module and if not – then install the same:
php -m | grep mcrypt
sudo php5enmod mcrypt
php -m | grep mcrypt
sudo service apache2 restart
Access phpMyAdmin – First Time
To access phpMyAdmin for the first time; log in to phpMyAdmin by going to your server followed by /phpmyadmin. Note that you can use http://YOUR_SERVER_IP/phpmyadmin or http://your_domain_or_IP/phpmyadmin if you don’t have domains already set up.
Here, log in with the root user and the password you set for the phpMyAdmin application.
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