How to install adminer in a server with no cpanel?

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Adminer is an open source database management tool written in PHP. Adminer is available for MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Firebird, and MongoDB. Adminer is also known as "phpMinAdmin". Adminer provides more security and performance. Adminer gives the following features.

  1. Simple user interface.
  2. Consists of 1 PHP file for the application.
  3. Automatically adds foreign keys.
  4. Can easily reorder columns in each table.
  5. Zero configuration.
  6. Connect to the database server with credential.
  7. Import and Export database or table.
  8. Create, alter, drop tables, views and columns.

The installation steps:

  • Adminer is the part of the standard Ubuntu repositories. Install Adminer from the repository using the following commands in terminal.
    sudo apt-get install adminer
    service apache2 restart
  • Install Adminer manually is very easy, can be done using the following commands in terminal.
    sudo mkdir /var/www/html/adminer
    sudo wget "http://www.adminer.org/latest.php" -O /var/www/html/adminer/index.php
    service apache2 restart

Now you can navigate to Adminer's login page by following address on your web browser:

http://localhost/adminer/

Note that, the second install option is more easy that the first. May this tips help you well. Do you need more assistance, just ping us. Do you want any other installation related tips in Ubuntu , lets search here.