通过require ssl锁定phpmyadmin

Question

I clicked "require ssl" in phpmyadmin on my server and it locked me out. I've searched everywhere for any file I can change to reverse this, but all the old methods have been discontinued in the newer versions of phpmyadmin (4.6+). I have scoured through all the files I could get my hands on, but to no avail. Does anyone have any ideas on this?

Answer 1

This may not be exactly for your version of mysql but one simple way to solve this on mariadb/mysql is to enable ssl connections on your server. As a side effect, it will render your server more secure if you force users to use SSL... The way to do this is to:

1) Create a certificate for your server if not already done. There are lots of site to explain how to do this. http://www.openssl.org would be a good start.

2) Modify the mariadb configuration /etc/mysql/my.cnf for the server to point to your certificate:

sudo vi /etc/mysql/my.cnf

And add/uncomment the following lines (and change the path to the SSL files):

ssl=true
ssl-ca=/etc/mysql/ssl/ca-cert.pem
ssl-cert=/etc/mysql/ssl/server-cert.pem
ssl-key=/etc/mysql/ssl/server-key.pem

3) Restart mariadb/mysql:

sudo systemctl restart mariadb

4) Loggin to mariadb using ssl:

sudo mysql --ssl -u root -p

It will ask for the root password of mariadb/mysql.

5) And finally remove the "REQUIRE SSL" constraint for the root user:

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'localhost' REQUIRE NONE;
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
QUIT;

After which your can log as root with phpmyadmin as you could before.

I hope this helps anyone in your situation as I fell in the same trap myself.