Password protect phpmyadmin altogether

[flipjargendy]

I just installed a Debian server. I've got everything just about ready to go but I cannot figure out how to password protect the phpmyadmin page. I want to password protect it completely so that users who visit my site are not even brought into the login page.

There is no actual directory but when I type in phpmyadmin I am brought to the login page.

I have used my Apache2.conf... since I have access to it I see no need to use .htacess. I have completed the necessary steps to password protect a directory but since phpmyadmin isn't actually a directory or even a file in my html directories, it isn't working properly. This is my assumption. Please tell me if I am going about this the correct way.

Thanks

[jledhead]

it is serving from a folder on your computer, and apache knows where that folder is. if you installed from apt then check /etc/apache2/sites-enabled and check your conf files there and see if you have one for phpmyadmin. that will help you to find out where to use the .htaccess file.

[flipjargendy]

I looked in sites-enable and sites-available but did not see anything for phpmyadmin or mysql. Any other ideas?

Would it be bad to go about it this way?

Create a symbolic link to wherever http://domain.com/phpmyadmin leads and then password protect it as a file or directory?

[jledhead]

if apache is already serving phpmyadmin then it is either symlinked already or there is a conf file somehere that references it, or the phpmyadmin folder is in the doc root of your apache, so creating another symlink would be double work and probably counteraffective.

[flipjargendy]

I found where to change the directory and have succesfully have done so. Now the symbolic link I created is password protected and leads to phpmyadmin. However, the new alias address is unprotected.

Thanks for the help.

Here is my solution for anyone trying figure this out. I could not find one guide that mentioned how to do this the correct way.

SOLUTION:

1. The file that determines what the phpmyadmin web address will be is /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf and all you need to do is comment out the line that says:
   

   Alias /phpmyadmin /usr/share/phpmyadmin

2. Now that there is no link to phpmyadmin from the web you must create a symbolic link. Goto the directory you wish to have phpmyadmin accessed from and type:
   

   ln -s /urs/share/phpmyadmin/ phpmyadmin

   This creates a link to /usr/share/phpmyadmin and anything that you do to the link /phpmyadmin will effect the actual directory. So don't delete anything inside phpmyadmin unless you mean it!