phpmyadmin error during installation “Empty value for 'port' specified.”

Question

I have been trying to install phpmyadmin on my digitalocean droplet using ubuntu 14.04 / mysql 5.7.12 . I have a LAMP stack with apache as the web server.

During instal

Answer 1

I've searched the internet for hours but none worked for me except this.

After changing dbc_dbport='' to dbc_dbport='0' I still encountered some other problems.

If you are not able to continue the configuration process properly, follow these additional steps:

First, simply choose Abort.

Then login to mysql as root using the password you’ve defined when you installed MariaDB.

mysql -u root -p

Next, issue following command:

CREATE DATABASE phpmyadmin;

Then, issue following command: (Do not forget to replace changethispassword with your own password of choice.)

GRANT ALL ON phpmyadmin.* TO phpmyadmin@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'changethispassword';

Exit mysql> using:

\q

Next, edit the database configuration:

sudo gedit /etc/phpmyadmin/config-db.php

Edit the dbpass parameter with the password you’ve just defined.

Replace changethispassword with your own and save. (It must've been already set correctly.)