Configuring phpMyAdmin with nginx (Fedora 17) for access at localhost/phpmyadmin

Question

[Tried all answers on Stackoverflow, and searched on google a lot, but none of the configurations worked.]

I've installed LEMP server on Fedora using the guide on DigitalOcean (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-linux-nginx-mysql-php-lemp-stack-on-centos-6). Replaced example.com in nginx's default.conf to localhost.

Then, I installed phpMyAdmin using this (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-phpmyadmin-on-a-lemp-server).

The nginx web directory is /usr/share/nginx/html. I've created a symbolic link for phpmyadmin. It's at /usr/share/nginx/html/phpMyAdmin.

Currently, I just need localhost access (localhost/phpmyadmin). I'm able to access localhost, and localhost/info.php.

I tried many configurations, one of them below: Nginx location directive doesn't seem to be working. Am I missing something?

But it doesn't work. Sometimes I get "No input file specified." and other times 404 not found. I'd like to have the access at localhost/phpmyadmin.

Edit: My default.conf file. Getting a "No input file specified." error in browser.

#
# The default server
#
server {
    #listen       80 default_server;
    listen  80;
    server_name localhost;
    #server_name  _;

    #charset koi8-r;

    #access_log  logs/host.access.log  main;

    location / {
        root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
        index index.php index.html index.htm;
    }

    location /phpmyadmin {
        alias /usr/share/nginx/html/phpMyAdmin;
        index index.php index.html index.htm;
    }

    error_page  404              /404.html;
    location = /404.html {
        root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
    }

    # redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
    #
    error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
    location = /50x.html {
        root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
    }

    # proxy the PHP scripts to Apache listening on 127.0.0.1:80
    #
    #location ~ \.php$ {
    #    proxy_pass   http://127.0.0.1;
    #}

    # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
    #
    location ~ /phpMyAdmin/.*\.php$ {
        fastcgi_pass    127.0.0.1:9000;
        fastcgi_index   index.php;
        fastcgi_param   SCRIPT_FILENAME /usr/share/nginx/html/$uri;
        include     fastcgi_params;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        root           /usr/share/nginx/html;
        fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
        fastcgi_index  index.php;
        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include        fastcgi_params;
    }

    # deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
    # concurs with nginx's one
    #
    #location ~ /\.ht {
    #    deny  all;
    #}
}

Thanks.

Answer 1

For your 404, you should make the character cases match either all phpmyadmin (all lower case) or phpMyAdmin.

To make the config clearer (my opinion), you could use nested locations:

location /phpmyadmin/ {
    index index.php index.html index.htm;

    location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_pass    127.0.0.1:9000;
        fastcgi_index   index.php;
        fastcgi_param   SCRIPT_FILENAME /usr/share/nginx/html/$uri;
        include     fastcgi_params;
    }
}

You then have to relink phpMyAdmin in your webroot (note the missing alias directive):

unlink /usr/share/nginx/html/phpMyAdmin
ln -s /usr/share/phpMyAdmin /usr/share/nginx/html/phpmyadmin

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Alternatively, to keep the mixed-case link, add this line to the above location /phpmyadmin to internally change the $uri (required to find the files):

rewrite ^/phpmyadmin(.*)$ /phpMyAdmin$1;

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To fix the 500, you might want to check out another answer on SF about PHP restrictions. I just now realized that executing PHP scripts outside the webroot can trigger security mechanisms.
That would then be a PHP error, meaning that the location matches.