Installing phpMyAdmin on Mac OS X

1. Download phpmyadmin

Firstly, let's download phpmyadmin from phpMyAdmin Site

2. Extract the package

Open Terminal and Extract downloaded package to /usr/local/ by running command

sudo unzip phpMyAdmin-4.1.4-english.zip -d /usr/local/

3. Rename the directory name

sudo mv /usr/local/phpMyAdmin-4.1.4-english /usr/local/phpmyadmin

4. Change hostname to IP Address

cd /usr/local/phpmyadmin

sudo cp config.sample.inc.php config.inc.php

nano config.inc.php

Change [$i]['host'] = ‘localhost’ to $cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = ’127.0.0.1′

/* Authentication type */
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'cookie';
/* Server parameters */
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = '127.0.0.1';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type'] = 'tcp';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['compress'] = false;
/* Select mysql if your server does not have mysqli */
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension'] = 'mysqli';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] = false;

5. Configure apache to enable http://localhost/phpmyadmin

sudo nano /etc/apache2/other/phpmyadmin.conf

add this line codes below:

Alias /phpmyadmin /usr/local/phpmyadmin
< Directory /usr/local/phpmyadmin >
    Options Indexes
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
< /Directory >

6. Start the apache

sudo apachectl start

7. Enable the PHP module

sudo nano /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

Then, uncomment the #LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so to LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so

8. Restart the apache

sudo apachectl restart

Done, now you can access the http://localhost/phpmyadmin