In certain circumstances, it may be a hassle if you have cPanel login first to access phpmyadmin. In the following tutorial, we will explain the steps to install and configure phpmyadmin to be accessed without having to log into cPanel. The version used in this time is version 3.5.2, please download it first by clicking this download link , store them in your local pc.
The next step:
- Log into your cpanel account, usually accessed by https://yourdomain.com:2082 (Change yourdomain with you website address)
- Click the File Manager menu on your cPanel, and select the Web Root (public_html / www) on the choice Directory Selection , click Go
- Click the Upload menu on the menu in File Manager,
- Click Choose File, and select the file you used previously phpmyadmin downloaded on your local pc, wait until the upload is complete, then click on back to / home /
- In the File Manager, is now seen phpmyadmin file you just uploaded, right click on the file, and click the Extract File Manager menu on the line, make sure the destination directory / public_html, and click Extract File (s)
- Has now created a folder called “phpMyAdmin-3.5.2-all-languages”, right click on the folder, and click Rename on the menu sequence File Manager, change the name and click Rename to phpmyadmin,
- right click on the phpmyadmin folder, and click New Folder on the File Manager menu row, named “config” (without the quotes), click Create New Folder,
- right Click on the config folder you just created, and click Change Permissions on the menu of File Manager, click on all the boxes on the option Change Permissions, resulting in 777,
- From your web browser, access to the address yourdomain.com/phpmyadmin/setup (change yourdomain.com with your domain name),
- Click the New Server, and then click Save (not need to fill in the columns)
- Click Save, the note “Configuration saved to file config / config.inc.php in phpMyAdmin top level directory, copy it to top level one and delete directory config to use it.”
- Return to the File Manager menu, right click on the config folder phpmyadmin folder and click copy the config.inc.php file, fill in the / public_html / phpmyadmin, and click the Copy File (s),
- For security, delete the config folder to the folder the file config.inc.php in phpmyadmin if it has been copied.
- from here, phpmyadmin can be accessed without having to log in through the address yourdomain.com/cpanel / phpmyadmin (change yourdomain.com with your domain name), login using your database username.
- Thus phpmyadmin installation steps that can be accessed without a cPanel login. Good luck.