Learn How To Install Adminer on Debian/Ubuntu

October 20, 2019

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    Adminer is a lightweight alternative to phpMyAdmin. In comparison, its total package size is 400KB, versus the 4.2MB of phpMyAdmin. Unlike phpMyAdmin, which can only manage MySQL databases, this lite database manager can be used to manage MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MS SQL, Oracle, and SimpleDB database.

    Thanks to its multi-language support, Adminer is used by individuals from around the world. It has language support for Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, Estonian, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Tamil, Turkish and Ukrainian.

    This guide will explain how to setup Adminer on either Debian or Ubuntu.

    Setup Adminer

    It is required that Apache is already installed on your server. Once Apache is installed, Adminer can be installed from one of two sources.

    From Debian/Ubuntu repositories

    This is an older version, 3.3.3-1.

    sudo apt-get install adminer

    From the Adminer project homepage

    Newer versions are offered here, such as 4.2.1.

    sudo mkdir /usr/share/adminer
sudo wget "http://www.adminer.org/latest.php" -O /usr/share/adminer/latest.php
sudo ln -s /usr/share/adminer/latest.php /usr/share/adminer/adminer.php
echo "Alias /adminer.php /usr/share/adminer/adminer.php" | sudo tee /etc/apache2/conf-available/adminer.conf
sudo a2enconf adminer.conf

    Once the installation completes, restart Apache.

    sudo service apache2 restart

    At this point, the setup is complete. You can access Adminer at either of the following addresses.

    http://[SERVER_IP]/adminer  
http://[SERVER_IP]/adminer.php

    Replace [SERVER_IP] with the IP address of your VPS.

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