How to install phpMyAdmin 5 on the old DirectAdmin server

In this tutorial, AZDIGI will show you how to install phpMyAdmin 5 on your old DirectAdmin server.

I. Introduction

In January 2021, most newly installed DirectAdmin systems were running phpMyAdmin 5.0.4.

However, some DirectAdmin systems installed many years ago can only be updated to phpMyAdmin 4.9.7. Often, I find servers running CentOS 6 or CentOS 5 encounter this situation.

To fully support the latest features, we should use the latest version of phpMyAdmin.

You can see the changes from the phpMyAdmin version at the following link:

• phpMyAdmin changelog.

II. Install phpMyAdmin 5 on DirectAdmin server

To install phpMyAdmin 5 on the DirectAdmin server, follow these 3 steps.

Step 1: SSH into your DirectAdmin system

To install phpMyAdmin 5 on the DirectAdmin server, we first need to SSH or access your VPS/server with root privileges. If you don’t know how to SSH into your VPS/Server, you can refer to the following tutorial:

• How to login to Linux VPS with SSH protocol.

After successfully SSH, we continue with step 2 to perform the phpMyAdmin 5 installation commands on the old DirectAdmin server.

Step 2: Commands to install phpMyAdmin 5 on the old DirectAdmin server

First, we need to check what version of phpMyAdmin on the server is configured with the following command:

cd /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild/
cat options.conf | grep phpmyadmin_ver
    

Explanation of the two commands above:

• Command 1: Move to the custombuild folder.
• Command 2: Check what version of phpMyAdmin is being configured.

In case your phpmyadmin_ver versions are not 5 then you use the following command to change to version 5.

./build set phpmyadmin_ver 5
    

You will get a message that phpmyadmin_ver has been changed from the old version to version 5 as below:

After you have updated version 5, you need to run the following two commands to install this version.

./build update
./build phpmyadmin
    

Explanation of the two commands above:

• Command 1: Update custombuild script.
• Command 2: Install the latest version of phpMyAdmin 5.

Since phpMyAdmin is so lightweight, the installation of the new version is speedy and has almost no problems.

Below is my screen after running the installation command:

So we have successfully installed phpMyAdmin 5 on the old DirectAdmin server. You can check the installed version of phpMyAdmin with the following command:

./build versions | grep phpmyadmin
    

Or simply go to the phpMyAdmin interface to see as shown below:

III. Summary

Hopefully, this article on installing phpMyAdmin 5 on an old DirectAdmin server will help you solve your problems.

Wishing you success!

See more useful articles about DirectAdmin at the following link:

• Summary of instructions for using DirectAdmin.

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