from

$ sudo ln -s /usr/share/phpmyadmin/ /var/www

to

$ sudo ln -s /usr/share/phpmyadmin/ /var/www/html/

The rest of the tutorial worked fine for me on my Raspberry Pi

This is an add on to my reported 404 issues.

After some tries, I have found out, that when accessing via ssh there is access to maria DB, but not when accessing locally
–
1st via ssh (access to mariadb):

odroid@odroid:~$ sudo mysqladmin -u root -p version
[sudo] Passwort für odroid: 
Enter password: 
mysqladmin  Ver 9.1 Distrib 10.3.22-MariaDB, for debian-linux-gnu on aarch64
Copyright (c) 2000, 2018, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others.

Server version		10.3.22-MariaDB-1ubuntu1
Protocol version	10
Connection		Localhost via UNIX socket
UNIX socket		/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
Uptime:			15 hours 18 min 5 sec

Threads: 7  Questions: 66  Slow queries: 0  Opens: 32  Flush tables: 1  Open tables: 26  Queries per second avg: 0.001

2nd locally (no access to mariadb):

odroid@odroid:~$ sudo mysqladmin -u -root -p version
[sudo] Passwort für odroid: 
Enter password: 
mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
error: 'Access denied for user '-root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)'

The often reported issue, that Lighttpd is not running dependent on a parallel installed and running apache server is really annoying.

A running lighttpd can be easily checked out with:

$ sudo systemctl status lighttpd
...a parallel running apache2 server has cost me hours!

Dear Ravi,
Your introduction is very very very good!
Big ThanX
ernst

Seems I have the same 404 issues.

What I have found out: could it have something to do with the access rights? Something that you have no access to the link?

/www has rwx rwx r-x owner: www-data, group: www-data, oct 40775

/www/~phpmyadmin has: rwx r-x r-x owner: root, group: root, oct 40775
usr/share/phpmyadmin has rwx rwx r-x owner root, group root, oct 40775

regards
ernst

@Bepo,

Try to remove phpmyadmin completely, and re-install it and during the web server configuration select ‘lighttpd‘. See section: Installing PhpMyAdmin in Ubuntu in the article.

I have removed apache2 and put a renewing installation halted.

So now I keep having the lighttpd placeholder website.

But the issue with the error “404 Not Found” is still there.

Why is this so hard to get? I really would like to test lighttpd, but phpmyadmin is a bit of a hard part.