How to open phpMyAdmin on Google Cloud Platform

 To open phpMyAdmin on Google Cloud Platform, you can follow these steps:

1. SSH into your instance by opening the Google Cloud Console, going to the Compute Engine section, and selecting the instance that is running Apache2 and MySQL. Click on the SSH button next to the instance name.

2. Once you are connected to your instance, navigate to the Apache2 root directory by running the following command:

cd /var/www/html/

3. Download the latest version of phpMyAdmin by running the following command:

sudo wget https://files.phpmyadmin.net/phpMyAdmin/5.1.1/phpMyAdmin-5.1.1-all-languages.tar.gz

Note: You may need to replace the version number in the URL with the latest version available at the time.

4. Extract the downloaded file by running the following command:

sudo tar -xvf phpMyAdmin-5.1.1-all-languages.tar.gz

5. Rename the extracted directory to "phpmyadmin" by running the following command:

sudo mv phpMyAdmin-5.1.1-all-languages phpmyadmin

6. Change the ownership of the phpmyadmin directory to the Apache2 user by running the following command:

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data phpmyadmin

7. Create a new virtual host for phpMyAdmin by creating a new configuration file in the Apache2 sites-available directory. Run the following command to create the file:

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/phpmyadmin.conf

8. Add the following content to the file:

Alias /phpmyadmin /var/www/html/phpmyadmin
<Directory /var/www/html/phpmyadmin>
  Options FollowSymLinks
  DirectoryIndex index.php
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from all
</Directory>

9. Save the file by pressing Ctrl+X, then Y, then Enter.

10. Enable the new virtual host by running the following command:

sudo a2ensite phpmyadmin.conf

11. Restart Apache2 by running the following command:

sudo service apache2 restart

12. You can now access phpMyAdmin by opening a web browser and entering the following URL:

http://[YOUR-VM-IP]/phpmyadmin/

Note: Replace "[YOUR-VM-IP]" with the external IP address of your VM instance.

After following these steps, you should be able to access phpMyAdmin and manage your MySQL databases on your Google Cloud Platform instance.

If you facing the following problem while open the phpmyadmin on the browser :

"

Composer detected issues in your platform: Your Composer dependencies require the following PHP extensions to be installed: mysqli, xml

"

The error you are seeing when trying to access phpMyAdmin indicates that some required PHP extensions are missing on your system. In this case, it's the mysqli and xml extensions that are missing.

To resolve this issue, you can install the required PHP extensions by following these steps:

1. SSH into your Google Cloud Platform instance.

2. Run the following command to install the missing mysqli extension:

sudo apt-get install php-mysqli

3. Run the following command to install the missing xml extension:

sudo apt-get install php-xml

4. Restart Apache to apply the changes by running the following command:

sudo service apache2 restart

After following these steps, the missing PHP extensions should be installed and you should be able to access phpMyAdmin without any errors.