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Set Up phpMyAdmin on Debian

Category: VPS Setup

Install phpMyAdmin on a Debian VPS for browser-based MySQL management—update with

apt update

then run

apt install phpmyadmin

During setup select apache2 or nginx as the web server configure a database with dbconfig-common (set a password like phpMyAdm1n!) and access it at http://ip/phpmyadmin Secure it with SSL—install Certbot via

apt install python3-certbot-apache

and run

certbot --apache

to enable HTTPS Open port 80/443 in UFW with

ufw allow 80 && ufw allow 443

Test login with your MySQL root credentials—expect a dashboard On Linode this setup simplifies DB admin though add htpasswd for extra security if exposed publicly

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