Adminer

Adminer is a web-based database management tool written in PHP. It is possible to manage MySQL, PostgreSQL, Sqlite3, MS SQL, Oracle database and Elasticsearch.

It is a simpler alternative to PhpMyAdmin. You can find more pieces of information about this project at the official page or at Wikipedia.

Installation

Install the adminer^AUR package or download Adminer and place it manually in the document-root instead.

When using the adminer^AUR package, Adminer will be installed as /usr/share/webapps/adminer/index.php.

Ensure the correct extensions in /etc/php/php.ini are uncommented, e.g. extension=pdo_mysql should provide MySQL database management.

Configuration

Apache

Note: Ensure that the PHP extension for Apache is properly configured

Add the following line to /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:

Include conf/extra/httpd-adminer.conf

Then restart your Apache HTTP Server daemon.

Adminer can now be accessed by browsing to http://localhost/adminer.

Nginx

Note: Ensure that the PHP FastCGI interface has been configured correctly.

Create a server entry using /usr/share/webapps/adminer as root:

/etc/nginx/sites-available/adminer.conf

server {
    listen 443 ssl http2;
    listen [::]:443 ssl http2;

    server_name adminer.domain;
    root /usr/share/webapps/adminer;

    # Only allow certain IPs 
    #allow 192.168.1.0/24;
    #deny all;

    index index.php;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
    }

    error_page 404 /index.php;

    # PHP configuration
    location ~ \.php$ {
      ...
    }
}

Symlink adminer.conf to sites-enabled and restart nginx.

Hiawatha

Ensure that the PHP FastCGI interface is configured correctly.

Then add the following VirtualHost block to your /etc/hiawatha/hiawatha.conf.

/etc/hiawatha/hiawatha.conf

VirtualHost {

    # If you set WebsiteRoot to /usr/share/webapps/adminer you do not need followsymlinks
    # I symlinked the adminer folder to '/srv/http/adminer' so that I can easily remember where it's located but
    # still set 'WebsiteRoot' to the real source directory. You could point WebsiteRoot to the
    # symlinked directory, but you will have to set 'FollowSymlinks = yes' for that to function properly

    Hostname = db.domainname.dom
    #FollowSymlinks = yes
    #WebsiteRoot = /srv/http/adminer
    WebsiteRoot = /usr/share/webapps/adminer
    AccessLogfile = /var/log/hiawatha/adminer/access.log
    ErrorLogfile = /var/log/hiawatha/adminer/error.log
    StartFile = index.php
    UseFastCGI = PHP7

}

Then restart the hiawatha.service.

See also

• Official Adminer webpage
• Author's weblog