Install the latest stable releasewe will use phpmyadmin from the Michal Čihař ppa :
https://launchpad.net/~nijel/+archive/phpmyadmin

  • add-apt-repository ppa:nijel/phpmyadmin
  • apt-get update
  • apt-get install phpmyadmin

When prompted:
  • do not select any webservers.
  • configure the database for phpmyadmin with dbconfig : yes

Configure nginx
  • vim /etc/nginx/conf.d
# Detect when HTTPS is used
    map $scheme $fastcgi_https {  
        default off;  
        https on;
        }


add to the server { }

  • vim /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/

### phpMyAdmin ###    
    location /phpmyadmin {       
        root /usr/share/;       
        index index.php index.html index.htm;       
        location ~ ^/phpmyadmin/(.+\.php)$ {           
            try_files $uri =404;           
            root /usr/share/;           
            fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;           
            #fastcgi_pass unix:/tmp/phpfpm.sock;           
            fastcgi_param HTTPS $fastcgi_https; # <-- add this line for https support                        fastcgi_index index.php;           
            fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;                        include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;       
            }       
            location ~* ^/phpmyadmin/(.+\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico|html|xml|txt))$ {                           root /usr/share/;       
                }   
            }   
            location /phpMyAdmin {      
                rewrite ^/* /phpmyadmin last;   
                }     
### phpMyAdmin ###