Phpmyadmin installation with the following command sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin after installation, create a symbolic link to phpmyadmin contents sudo ln -s /usr/share/phpmyadmin /var/www/html/phpmyadmin update configuration file /etc/nginx/sites-available/default location ~ \. php $ { include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf; fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock; } location /phpmyadmin { index index.php index.html index.htm; root /usr/share; } restart nginx service sudo systemctl reload nginx now we can access phpmyadmin via http://example.com/phpmyadmin For the latest version installation, download the file using wget wget https://files.phpmyadmin.net/phpMyAdmin/4.7.9/phpMyAdmin-4.7.9-all-languages.tar.gz You will need to unpack it with by using tar command tar xvf phpMyAdmin-4.7.9-all-languages.tar.gz move the extract file to /usr/share/phpmyadmin , and now ...