This article covers the basics of setting of PHPMyAdmin to manage your MySQL databases on your Ubuntu Linux machine. These instructions will also work for a variety of other linux distributions as well. This is part of our series on setting up a Linode VPS with a fully working PHP, Apache, MySQL setup with multiple domains.

The following articles may be of interest to you:
Basic Linode VPS Setup
PHP, Apache, MySQL Setup on Ubuntu
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1. PhpMyAdmin Setup
sudo aptitude install phpmyadmin
This sets up phpmyadmin at your default server /phpmyadmin
PhpMyAdmin uses the following components/locations by default:

/usr/share/phpmyadmin
    /etc/apache2/conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf
    /etc/phpmyadmin

Below is a minor security change to the location of phpmyadmin to offset hackers who try to break in via the interface by going to yoursite.com/phpmyadmin . This isn’t all that strong, but every little thing helps.

2. Minor PhpMyAdmin Security Change
sudo nano /etc/apache2/conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf
Change Alias /myphpalias to /usr/share/phpmyadmin
Then available at http://domainname/myphpalias instead of phpmyadmin