Installing PHPmyAdmin on Debian/Ubuntu

1. apt-get install phpmyadmin (make sure you have php and mysql installed)

2. change apache2 configuration according to /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf

3. /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

http://localhost/phpmyadmin

If you want to change the default hostname to other lets say phpownadmin rather than using the default one. you can edit the /etc/phpmyadmin directory

1. go to /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf

2. copy apache.conf to /etc/apache2/sites-available/phpownadmin

3. edit phpownadmin change the ff to

Alias /phpownadmin /usr/share/phpownadmin

<Directory /usr/share/phpownadmin>

4. rename your phpmyadmin directory located on /usr/share/phpmyadmin to /usr/share/phpownadmin

5. reload apache2

6. check using http://localhost/phpownadmin