How do I access phpMyAdmin?

Question

I installed phpMyAdmin on my computer. I used Apache as my http server. However, every time I go to http://localhost/phpMyAdmin/, this screen appears:

How do I make it so that this login screen appears instead:

Solution 1

You may be better off to install an integrated suite, such as:

XAMPP - Linux/Windows/Apple * store web pages in htdocs

WAMP - Windows

MAMP - Apple

Then, just going to the address localhost will give you a menu, with all components (apache, phpmyadmin, tomcat, etc etc)

They are all free, so why not?

Solution 2

Add this

DirectoryIndex index.php

to /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf (or wherever your apache.conf or httpd.conf or whatever is).

If you happen to be running on Windows, look for the Apache webserver directory.

XAMPP Users: If you have installed it as a service, changes to configuration files seem to take effect only when you restart the service through the Services panel and not via the XAMPP control panel.