Can't connect to phpmyadmin in Bitnami instance hosted by AWS

Question

I\'m trying to connect to phpmyadmin through my Public DNS and I can\'t seem to get it to work.

I\'ve tried following these directions:

Can\'t Access PHPMyA

Answer 1

You should also restart your AWS server after you edited the http-app.conf .

Answer 2

I faced the same issue. Though I was able to access phpMyAdmin by using the following steps

1. SSH to the server using the following command

   ssh -N -L 8888:127.0.0.1:80 -i YourPemFile.pem bitnami@YourServerIP

2. Then open the following link in your browser

   http://127.0.0.1:8888/phpmyadmin

3. You will see the following page

4. Now just use root and the default wordpress password to login.

Answer 3

When looking at this article (How to enable phpMyAdmin or phpPgAdmin to be accessed remotely?), I needed to be looking at Virtual Machine and not Amazon cloud / Bitnami Hosting.

When I changed the /opt/bitnami/apps/phpmyadmin/conf/httpd-app.conf file to the following, I was able to access via [PUBLIC_DNS/YOUR_DOMAIN_NAME/IP]/phpmyadmin].

Main changes being:

Allow from all

and

Require all granted

After the changes, remember to restart apache server. (or reboot your instance)

sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart apache

/opt/bitnami/apps/phpmyadmin/conf/httpd-app.conf

<Directory "/opt/bitnami/apps/phpmyadmin/htdocs">
# AuthType Basic
# AuthName phpMyAdmin
# AuthUserFile "/opt/bitnami/apache2/users"
# Require valid-user
AllowOverride None

<IfModule php5_module>
        php_value upload_max_filesize 80M
php_value post_max_size 80M
</IfModule>

<IfVersion < 2.3 >
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Satisfy all
</IfVersion>
<IfVersion >= 2.3>
Require all granted
</IfVersion>
ErrorDocument 403 "For security reasons, this URL is only accesible using localhost (127.0.0.1) as the hostname"
</Directory>

Docs Ref: https://docs.bitnami.com/virtual-machine/components/phpmyadmin/

Answer 4

Instead of restarting the server you can just type this on SSH:

sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart