Where is my phpMyAdmin installation?

Solution 1:

You just need to make a symbolic link to the installation in your server root. Mine is in /var/www/ (though check your DocumentRoot as default is often /var/www/html) so:

sudo ln -s /usr/share/phpmyadmin/ /var/www/phpmyadmin

After that, you'll be able to access trough localhost:

http://localhost/phpmyadmin

As for why is not installed by default in its right location, or the installer creates a symbolic link itself, I have no idea...

Solution 2:

This answer is little bit more generic. To know the list of files installed by any package you have to do this

1. Get the name of the package with dpkg --list | grep phpmyadmin
2. For list of file installed use this dpkg --listfiles <package_name step 1>

Solution 3:

I imagine that you probably are facing the same issue that I had the first time I installed phpmyadmin. Considering it's been over a year since you asked this, I'm assuming you've figured it out by now, but for future reference for others, if you can't see it when going to http://yourdomain.com/phpmyadmin, you probably need to reconfigure the package, and make sure that you place a checkbox in the apache2 box (assuming that's what you're using for your server) by pressing the spacebar before you continue. I was going quickly and just pressed enter, not realizing that I hadn't selected apache2. To reconfigure the package, use the following:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure phpmyadmin

Solution 4:

Oh, usually the phpmyadmin goes to /usr/lib/phpmyadmin if I'm not wrong.

I always need to move the folder to my www path.

Solution 5:

For me it worked out differently.

I've had to copy the apache.conf file from /etc/phpmyadmin to /etc/apache2/sites-available and to /etc/apache2/sites-enabled using file manager as root.

Then I ran sudo service apache2 restart and everything was just fine.

Hope it's usefull.