In order for phpmyadmin to work, you must install all component needed by phpmyadmin
Component needed
- Apache 2.X
- PHP 5.1 / 5.2 depend on phpmyadmin version
- mysql 5.x (must create mysql root pass before proceed)
Update your system to the latest version
# yum update
Download the latest version phpmyadmin
cd /var/www/html
wget http://puzzle.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/phpmyadmin/phpMyAdmin-2.6.4-pl1.tar.gz
tar -xvzf phpMyAdmin-2.6.4-pl1.tar.gz
mv phpMyAdmin-2.6.4-pl1.tar.gz phpmyadmin
rm phpMyAdmin-2.6.4-pl1.tar.gz
chown -R apache:apache phpmyadmin
chmod -R 0700 phpmyadmin
cd phpMyAdmin
mv config.inc.sample.php config.inc.php
nano config.inc.php
Change line below
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = ‘http‘; # default is cookies
Restart apache
service httpd restart
Note: phpmyadmin username is root and password is mysql root pass