仅使用phpmyadmin进行远程服务器而无需安装本地mysql

Question

Edit : My question is different than existing questions because I need a way without installing mysql to local server. Please do not throw blindly duplicate question tags to questions. Thanks.

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Edit 2 : Indeed this is not a duplicate, unlike some people still blindly insisted. I am able to connect to remote server without having mysql-client and server packages on the server and successfully executed queries through phpmyadmin interface after adding a custom line into codebase. I have created an issue on phpmyadmin github repository for this problem and also added my solution. I'm going to share my solution in here if this duplicate tag removed.

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Question:

I'm trying to connect a remote mysql server and I've manually downloaded phpmyadmin and unzipped into a custom /phpmyadmin folder. I've configured my custom config.inc.php.

I don't have custom mysql installation and this is not a preferred option.

Same settings are working for my php-mysql application but it does not work for phpmyadmin and I'm getting this error when trying to login to phpmyadmin:

#2002 - Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) — The server is not responding (or the local server's socket is not correctly configured).

/*
 * Generated configuration file
 * Generated by: phpMyAdmin 4.7.9 setup script
 * Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2018 08:09:19 +0000
 */

/* Servers configuration */
$i = 0;

/* Server: dev-staging [1] */
$i++;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['verbose'] = 'dev-staging';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'external_ip';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['port'] = '3306';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['socket'] = '';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type'] = 'tcp';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension'] = 'mysqli';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['compress'] = true;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'dev_wp_user';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = 'dev_password';

/* End of servers configuration */
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] = false;
$cfg['blowfish_secret'] = 'z{<F1!k=CjIVTpg)^wJq;StO?sL{F-^E';
$cfg['DefaultLang'] = 'en';
$cfg['ServerDefault'] = 1;
$cfg['UploadDir'] = '';
$cfg['SaveDir'] = '';
$cfg['connect_type'] = 'tcp';

Answer 1

It looks like that phpMyAdmin cannot use your config.inc.php and is trying to use default localhost connection instead. This could be caused by missing php open tag in the beginning of the file. phpMyAdmin suppress output and errors during config file processing, so it maybe complicated to notice if something is wrong with it.

Answer 2

I was facing the same issue and find a correct solution.

1. Open installation folder.
2. you will see "config.sample.inc.php"
3. rename it "config.inc.php" and then open
4. change the $cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] value with your server address. In my case, its 192.168.1.102 (i am using nodejs with mysql)
5. And then restart xampp,wampp (Apache) or any other php server.
6. Open http://localhost/phpMyAdmin/index.php