How do I set up phpMyAdmin on a Laravel Homestead box?

Question

I installed it by running sudo apt-get install phpymyadmin and then running

sudo ln -s /usr/share/phpmyadmin/ /usr/share/nginx/html and sudo service nginx restart

but it's not working.

Note: I didn't select any of the apache2 or lighttpd options when installing.

Answer 1

Option 1:

This will install the latest version of PhpMyAdmin from a shell script I've written. You are welcome to check it out on Github.

1. Run the following command from your code/projects directory:

   curl -sS https://raw.githubusercontent.com/grrnikos/pma/master/pma.sh | sh
   

Option 2:

This will install PhpMyAdmin (not the latest version) from Ubuntu's repositories. Assuming that your projects live in /home/vagrant/Code :

1. sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin Do not select apache2 nor lighttpd when prompted. Just hit tab and enter.

2. sudo ln -s /usr/share/phpmyadmin/ /home/vagrant/code/phpmyadmin

3. cd ~/Code && serve phpmyadmin.test /home/vagrant/code/phpmyadmin

Note: If you encounter issues creating the symbolic link on step 2, try the first option or see Lyndon Watkins' answer below.

Final steps:

1. Open the /etc/hosts file on your main machine and add:

   127.0.0.1  phpmyadmin.test
   

2. Go to http://phpmyadmin.test:8000