Phpmyadmin installation problem

[walkerf]

I installed phpmyadmin by the command below

sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin

but when I opened the web browser and typed in "localhost/phpmyadmin", I got "not found" page.

then I ran following command:
find / -name phpmyadmin
there were 4 result:
/usr/share/phpmyadmin
/usr/share/doc/phpmyadmin
/etc/phpmyadmin
/var/lib/phpmyadmin

I don't know where is wrong and how to configure it, Thanks for help!

[yancek]

phpMyAdmin is a directory not a page so you will get that message. You need a file in that directory to open, usually start with the info.php file. I assume you are using Ubuntu? in which case you should have the phpMyAdmin directory under /var/www/ and in that directory (phpMyAdmin) create this file in a text editor:

<?php
phpinfo ();
?>

Save it in the phpMyAdmin directory as filename info.php. After doing that, enter your previous line in the browser with info.php at the end. You should see a page with a lot of output about php.

There are numerous tutorials on setting up servers, google 'lamp server on Ubuntu'.

[walkerf]

Thank you yancek!

The LAMP servers are working, I used "find " to find where the phpmyadmin was installed, and got 4 results. I don't know which one is for phpmyadmin web pages, because the Apache default DocumentRoot is /var/www, if the phpmyadmin is outside of it, then phpmyadmin can't be opened in a web browser.

[yancek]

the Apache default DocumentRoot is /var/www, if the phpmyadmin is outside of it, then phpmyadmin can't be opened in a web browser.

With the DocumentRoot as /var/www, all your files for the server should be there. If you have non-php files, you can put them there but the php files should be in the subdirectory /var/www/phpMyAdmin/ to work.

Glad you got it working.

[walkerf]

The question now is phpMyAdmin can't be opened in a web browser, there are 4 results when I run "ind / -name phpmyadmin"
/usr/share/phpmyadmin
/usr/share/doc/phpmyadmin
/etc/phpmyadmin
/var/lib/phpmyadmin

There might be some errors when installing phpmyadmin, for no phpadmin in /var/www, do you think so?