Installing PHPMYADMIN on Centos 6

PHPMyadmin is a web front end to manage MySQL databases. It can be installed on the same server as the database or on a separate server.


Step 1: Open a Linux command line terminal (CLI)
Login as root or administrator.


Step 2: Increase the software repository with rpmforge
Browse for the packages and download from http://packages.sw.be
or

wget http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.i686.rpm


Select the 64bit version if your machine supports it.


Install the keys from DAG.
rpm --import http://apt.sw.be/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt


Install the rpmforge files to access the repository.
rpm -i rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.*.rpm


Refer to http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge/ for details



Step 3: Install phpmyadmin
yum --enablerepo=rpmforge install phpmyadmin


Step 4: Using a web browser point to the server installed with phpmyadmin.
E.g.
http://localhost/phpmyadmin

where is the server's IP address.

You should be able to see the main page of phpmyadmin.