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Install phpMyAdmin on Windows VPS

Category: VPS Setup

Set up phpMyAdmin—a MySQL GUI—on a Windows VPS—install IIS via Server Manager (Web Server Role) then PHP via Web Platform Installer (e g PHP 8 1) Download phpMyAdmin from phpmyadmin net extract to C:\inetpub\wwwroot\phpmyadmin and configure config inc php with
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'localhost';
Open port 80 with
netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name=\"HTTP\" dir=in action=allow protocol=TCP localport=80
Access at http://ip/phpmyadmin—log in with MySQL root On AWS Lightsail add SSL via IIS—ensures uptime for DB management no Bash needed

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