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How to secure phpMyAdmin

After searching online someone suggested adding a .htaccess file containing the following

Redirect 301 /phpmyadmin http://www.example.com/

but this did not work for me. Is the any other way of preventing people from accessing the phpMyAdmin login page by using the url http://www.example.com/phpMyAdmin?

Answer 1

the .htaccess redirect is the best way but, you can always go to index.php in the phpMyAdmin folder and insert either

exit();

or

header('Location: http://www.mydomain.com');

as the first line of index.php. This will just exit or redirect to the main page of your site whenever anyone tries to access that page.