Note that since phpMyAdmin has been accepted in to the official DockerHub repository, you can use either that or this older phpMyAdmin repository for your Docker installation. This is maintained as a courtesy to users who have not migrated.

Run phpMyAdmin with Alpine, Apache and PHP FPM.

All of the following examples will bring you phpMyAdmin on http://localhost:8080 where you can enjoy your happy MySQL administration.

phpMyAdmin connects using your MySQL server credentials. Please check your corresponding database server image for information on the default username and password or how to specify your own custom credentials during installation.

The official MySQL and MariaDB images use the following environment variables to define these:

• MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD - This variable is mandatory and specifies the password that will be set for the root superuser account.
• MYSQL_USER, MYSQL_PASSWORD - These variables are optional, used in conjunction to create a new user and to set that user's password.

The following tags are available:

• latest, fpm, and fpm-alpine are always the most recent released version
• Major versions, such as 5, 5-fpm, and 5-fpm-alpine
• Specific minor versions, such as 5.0, 5.0-fpm, and 5-fpm-alpine
• Specific patch versions, such as 5.0.0, 5.0.0-fpm, and 5.0.0-fpm-alpine. Note that, on rare occasion, there may be an intermediary "docker-only" release, such as 4.9.2-1

A complete list of tags is available at Docker Hub

We provide three variations:

• "apache" includes a full Apache webserver with PHP and includes everything needed to work out of the box. This is the default when only a version number is requested.
• "fpm" only starts a PHP FPM container. Use this variant if you already have a separate webserver. This includes more tools and is therefore a larger image than the "fpm-alpine" variation.
• "fpm-alpine" has a very small footprint. It is based on Alpine Linux and only starts a PHP FPM process. Use this variant if you already have a separate webserver. If you need more tools that are not available on Alpine Linux, use the fpm image instead.

First you need to run a MySQL or MariaDB server in Docker, and the phpMyAdmin image needs to be linked to the running database container:

docker run --name phpmyadmin -d --link mysql_db_server:db -p 8080:80 phpmyadmin:latest

You can specify a MySQL host in the PMA_HOST environment variable. You can also use PMA_PORT to specify the port of the server in case it's not the default one:

docker run --name phpmyadmin -d -e PMA_HOST=dbhost -p 8080:80 phpmyadmin:latest

You can use arbitrary servers by adding the environment variable PMA_ARBITRARY=1 to the startup command:

docker run --name phpmyadmin -d -e PMA_ARBITRARY=1 -p 8080:80 phpmyadmin:latest

This will run phpMyAdmin with the arbitrary server option - allowing you to specify any MySQL/MariaDB server on the login page.

version: '3.1'

services:
  db:
    image: mariadb:10.11
    restart: always
    environment:
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: notSecureChangeMe

  phpmyadmin:
    image: phpmyadmin
    restart: always
    ports:
      - 8080:80
    environment:
      - PMA_ARBITRARY=1

You can add your own custom config.inc.php settings (such as Configuration Storage setup) by creating a file named config.user.inc.php with the various user defined settings in it, and then linking it into the container using:

-v /some/local/directory/config.user.inc.php:/etc/phpmyadmin/config.user.inc.php

On the docker run line like this:

docker run --name phpmyadmin -d --link mysql_db_server:db -p 8080:80 -v /some/local/directory/config.user.inc.php:/etc/phpmyadmin/config.user.inc.php phpmyadmin:latest

Be sure to have <?php as your first line of the configuration file or the contents will not be detected as PHP code.

Example:

<?php

$cfg['ShowPhpInfo'] = true; // Adds a link to phpinfo() on the home page

See the following links for config file information:

• https://docs.phpmyadmin.net/en/latest/config.html#config
• https://docs.phpmyadmin.net/en/latest/setup.html

you can also consider storing your custom configuration files in the folder /etc/phpmyadmin/conf.d, which is very suitable for managing multiple phpMyAdmin configuration files for different hosts,Then you can create server-1.php, server-2.php, or any file name you want, and store them in the conf.d directory mounted on the host.

On the docker run line like this:

docker run --name phpmyadmin -d --link mysql_db_server:db -p 8080:80 -v /some/local/directory/conf.d:/etc/phpmyadmin/conf.d:ro phpmyadmin:latest

Set the variable PMA_ABSOLUTE_URI to the fully-qualified path (https://pma.example.net/) where the reverse proxy makes phpMyAdmin available.

In order to keep your sessions active between container updates you will need to mount the /sessions folder.

-v /some/local/directory/sessions:/sessions:rw

Set the variable PMA_SSL to 1 to enable SSL usage from phpMyAdmin to the MySQL server. The default value is 0. The variable PMA_SSLS can be used as a comma seperated sequence of 0 and 1 where multiple hosts are mentioned. Values order must follow the PMA_HOSTS and will be computed accordingly.

docker run --name phpmyadmin -d -e PMA_HOSTS=sslhost -e PMA_SSL=1 -p 8080:80 phpmyadmin:latest

docker run --name phpmyadmin -d -e PMA_HOSTS='sslhost,nosslhost' -e PMA_SSLS='1,0' -p 8080:80 phpmyadmin:latest

• PMA_ARBITRARY - when set to 1 connection to the arbitrary server will be allowed
• PMA_HOST - define address/host name of the MySQL server
• PMA_VERBOSE - define verbose name of the MySQL server
• PMA_PORT - define port of the MySQL server
• PMA_HOSTS - define comma separated list of address/host names of the MySQL servers
• PMA_VERBOSES - define comma separated list of verbose names of the MySQL servers
• PMA_PORTS - define comma separated list of ports of the MySQL servers
• PMA_SOCKET - define socket file for the MySQL connection
• PMA_SOCKETS - define comma separated list of socket files for the MySQL connections
• PMA_SSL_DIR - define the path used for SSL files generated from environement variables, default value is /etc/phpmyadmin/ssl
• PMA_SSL - when set to 1, defines SSL usage for the MySQL connection
• PMA_SSLS - comma separated list of 0 and 1 defining SSL usage for the corresponding MySQL connections
• PMA_SSL_VERIFY - when set to 1, enables SSL certificate verification for the MySQL connection.
• PMA_SSL_VERIFIES - comma-separated list of 0 and 1 to enable or disable SSL certificate verification for multiple MySQL connections.
• PMA_SSL_CA - in the context of mutual TLS security, allows setting your CA certificate file as a string inside the default config.inc.php.
• PMA_SSL_CAS - in the context of mutual TLS security, allows setting multiple CA certificate files as a comma-separated list of strings inside the default config.inc.php.
• PMA_SSL_CERT - in the context of mutual TLS security, allows setting your certificate file as a string inside the default config.inc.php.
• PMA_SSL_CERTS - in the context of mutual TLS security, allows setting multiple certificate files as a comma-separated list of strings inside the default config.inc.php.
• PMA_SSL_KEY - in the context of mutual TLS security, allows setting your private key file as a string inside the default config.inc.php.
• PMA_SSL_KEYS - in the context of mutual TLS security, allows setting multiple private key files as a comma-separated list of strings inside the default config.inc.php.
• PMA_USER and PMA_PASSWORD - define username and password to use only with the config authentication method
• PMA_ABSOLUTE_URI - the full URL to phpMyAdmin. Sometimes needed when used in a reverse-proxy configuration. Don't set this unless needed. See documentation.
• PMA_CONFIG_BASE64 - if set, this option will override the default config.inc.php with the base64 decoded contents of the variable
• PMA_USER_CONFIG_BASE64 - if set, this option will override the default config.user.inc.php with the base64 decoded contents of the variable
• PMA_UPLOADDIR - if defined, this option will set the path where files can be saved to be available to import ($cfg['UploadDir'])
• PMA_SAVEDIR - if defined, this option will set the path where exported files can be saved ($cfg['SaveDir'])
• PMA_CONTROLHOST - when set, this points to an alternate database host used for storing the phpMyAdmin Configuration Storage database database
• PMA_CONTROLPORT - if set, will override the default port (3306) for connecting to the control host for storing the phpMyAdmin Configuration Storage database database
• PMA_PMADB - define the name of the database to be used for the phpMyAdmin Configuration Storage database. When not set, the advanced features are not enabled by default: they can still potentially be enabled by the user when logging in with the zero conf (zero configuration) feature. Suggested values: phpmyadmin or pmadb
• PMA_CONTROLUSER - define the username for phpMyAdmin to use for advanced features (the controluser)
• PMA_CONTROLPASS - define the password for phpMyAdmin to use with the controluser
• PMA_QUERYHISTORYDB - when set to true, enables storing SQL history to the phpMyAdmin Configuration Storage database. When false, history is stored in the browser and is cleared when logging out
• PMA_QUERYHISTORYMAX - when set to an integer, controls the number of history items. See documentation. Defaults to 25.
• MAX_EXECUTION_TIME - if set, will override the maximum execution time in seconds (default 600) for phpMyAdmin ($cfg['ExecTimeLimit']) and PHP max_execution_time (format as [0-9+])
• MEMORY_LIMIT - if set, will override the memory limit (default 512M) for phpMyAdmin ($cfg['MemoryLimit']) and PHP memory_limit (format as [0-9+](K,M,G) where K is for Kilobytes, M for Megabytes, G for Gigabytes and 1K = 1024 bytes)
• UPLOAD_LIMIT - if set, this option will override the default value for apache and php-fpm (format as [0-9+](K,M,G) default value is 2048K, this will change upload_max_filesize and post_max_size values)
• TZ - if defined, this option will change the default PHP date.timezone from UTC. See documentation for supported values.
• HIDE_PHP_VERSION - if defined, this option will hide the PHP version (expose_php = Off). Set to any value (such as HIDE_PHP_VERSION=true).
• APACHE_PORT - if defined, this option will change the default Apache port from 80 in case you want it to run on a different port like an unprivileged port. Set to any port value (such as APACHE_PORT=8090)

For usage with Docker secrets, appending _FILE to the PMA_PASSWORD environment variable is allowed (it overrides PMA_PASSWORD if it is set):

docker run --name phpmyadmin -d -e PMA_PASSWORD_FILE=/run/secrets/db_password.txt -p 8080:80 phpmyadmin:latest

• PMA_SSL_CA
• PMA_SSL_CAS
• PMA_SSL_KEY
• PMA_SSL_KEYS
• PMA_SSL_CERT
• PMA_SSL_CERTS

Also includes: PMA_CONFIG_BASE64 or PMA_USER_CONFIG_BASE64.

For example, the variable would be named PMA_SSL_CA_BASE64 and the value is the base64 encoded contents of the file.

• MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD
• MYSQL_PASSWORD
• PMA_USER
• PMA_PASSWORD
• PMA_HOSTS
• PMA_HOST
• PMA_CONTROLHOST
• PMA_CONTROLUSER
• PMA_CONTROLPASS

You can run the E2E test suite on a local test environment. The Requirements are make, docker and the docker compose plugin.

Clone this repository: https://github.com/phpmyadmin/docker.git

And then run this command to start the test suite:

make run-tests

For more detailed documentation see https://docs.phpmyadmin.net/en/latest/setup.html#installing-using-docker

Please report any issues with the Docker container to https://github.com/phpmyadmin/docker/issues

Please report any issues with phpMyAdmin to https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/issues