Installing PhpMyAdmin on Ubuntu Server 16.04 with Nginx Webserver

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 phpmyadmin has changed to lastest version