

Prerequisitesīefore you get started with this guide, you need to have some basic steps completed.įirst, we’ll assume that your server has a non- root user with sudo privileges, as well as a firewall configured with ufw, as described in the initial server setup guide for Debian 9.

In this guide, we’ll discuss how to install and secure phpMyAdmin so that you can safely use it to manage your databases on a Debian 9 system. PhpMyAdmin was created so that users can interact with MariaDB through a web interface. While many users need the functionality of a database management system like MariaDB, they may not feel comfortable interacting with the system solely from the MariaDB prompt.
