How to setup phpMyAdmin in Homestead

phpMyAdmin in Homestead

How to setup phpMyAdmin in Homestead
By Andrews Ang  / Sep 06, 2016  / IT admin, Laravel, Programming, Tutorial, Web
Writing this for my own reference. Hope it helps someone too.

Install using Ubuntu repository:

This will install phpMyAdmin from Ubuntu’s repositories. Assuming that your projects live in /home/vagrant/Code:

On your hosting machine, open a terminal, go to your homestead folder, after “vagrant up”, enter “vagrant ssh” to ssh to your virtual machine.
Then enter “sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin” (Do not select apache2 nor lighttpd when prompted. Just hit tab and enter.)
You will be prompted whether to set up a database, select “OK” and when prompted for password, enter “secret”. (This is the default password for Homestead’s MySQL.)
Now enter “sudo ln -s /usr/share/phpmyadmin/ /home/vagrant/Code/phpmyadmin”
Finally, enter “cd ~/Code && serve phpmyadmin.app /home/vagrant/Code/phpmyadmin”
For Mac/Linux users, follow the following step to add a nice URL for phpMyAdmin.

On your hosting machine, edit the /etc/hosts file with the command “sudo nano /etc/hosts”. I like the nano editor, feel free to use any editor.
Add the following (you can use your virtual machine’s IP address instead of 127.0.0.1):
127.0.0.1 phpmyadmin.app
If you’re using nano editor, press keys Control + o (letter o) to save the changes. Then press keys Control + x to exit the editor.
Now open a browser.
Go to http://phpmyadmin.app
That’s it!
Reference:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23788096/how-to-setup-phpmyadmin-on-a-laravel-homestead-box

Phenomenal instructions! Thank you!