Completely removing phpMyAdmin

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I installed virtualmin and phpmyadmin separately using the apt-get command. phpMyAdmin didn't work because of Virtualmin's security settings (suexec). When I visit mydomain.com/phpmyadmin, it would download the whole PHP page instead of execute it. I tried disabling suexec but it didn't work. So now I want to remove phpMyAdmin. I removed it using the apt-get remove command and also deleted the /etc/phpmyadmin folder. But still, when I visit mydomain.com/phpmyadmin, it downloads the page. It probably means phpmyadmin wasn't completely deleted.

What is the problem?

Please help.

forcefsck · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-16T11:41:22.117

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If your system is using dpkg and apt (debian, ubuntu, etc), try running the following commands in that order (be careful with the sudo rm commands):

sudo apt-get -f install
sudo dpkg -P phpmyadmin  
sudo rm -vf /etc/apache2/conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf
sudo rm -vfR /usr/share/phpmyadmin
sudo service apache2 restart

edited Jun 16 '20 at 11:41

answered Feb 27 '11 at 21:16

forcefsck

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Sometimes dpkg wont purge phpmyadmin files, so you can run: sudo rm -rf /usr/share/phpmyadmin – Marcelo Agimóvel Nov 06 '18 at 10:08
some time you also need to run -> sudo apt-get -f install before all above commands. If you receive error like this ->Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) – Pontus Carme Apr 06 '19 at 18:57

score 54 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 04 '12 at 17:09

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I had to run the following command:

sudo apt-get autoremove phpmyadmin

Then I cleared my cache and it worked!

answered Jan 04 '12 at 17:09

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This worked great for me on Ubuntu. – Jonathan Dec 17 '12 at 19:08
it does not work for Mac osx:( – mOna Mar 03 '16 at 22:03
Sometimes (linux) you may also delete phpmyadmin's folder: sudo rm -rf /usr/share/phpmyadmin – Marcelo Agimóvel Nov 06 '18 at 10:08

score 9 · Answer 3 · edited Mar 11 '12 at 07:08

I was having a similar problem. PHP was working on my sites configured by virtualmin but not for phpmyadmin. PHPMyAdmin would not execute and the file was being downloaded by the browser. Everything I was reading was saying that libapache2-mod-php5 was not installed but I knew it was... so the thing to do was to purge it and reinstall.

sudo apt-get purge libapache2-mod-php5

sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5

sudo apt-get purge phpmyadmin

sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

score 5 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 19 '11 at 10:46

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Try purge

sudo aptitude purge phpmyadmin

Not sure this works with plain old apt-get though

answered Feb 19 '11 at 10:46

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score -1 · Answer 5 · edited Jan 05 '13 at 07:09

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I had same problem. Try the following command. This solved my problem.

sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5

edited Jan 05 '13 at 07:09

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answered Jan 05 '13 at 06:45

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