phpMyAdmin

Overview

phpMyAdmin is a web-based MySQL/MariaDB database administration tool. This stack runs phpMyAdmin with arbitrary server connection support.

Project Details

Project Repository: https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
Container Image: Docker Hub
Documentation: https://www.phpmyadmin.net/docs/
Reverse Proxy Port: 80

Getting Started

Start the container: docker compose up -d
Open http://localhost:${PHPMYADMIN_PORT:-8083} in your browser
Log in with your database credentials

Environment Variable Notes

PHPMYADMIN_PMA_ARBITRARY – allow connecting to any database server (default: 1)
PHPMYADMIN_PMA_HOST – default database host (default: mariadb)
PHPMYADMIN_PMA_USER – default database user (default: root)
PHPMYADMIN_PMA_PASSWORD – default database password (default: changeme)
PHPMYADMIN_UPLOAD_LIMIT – maximum upload size (default: 200M)

Volume Notes

No persistent volumes required.

Network Notes

Requires the external proxy network (Nginx Proxy Manager). An internal bridge network internal is available for connecting to database containers.

Docker Run

docker run -d \
  --name phpmyadmin \
  -e PMA_ARBITRARY=1 \
  -e PMA_HOST=mariadb \
  -e PMA_USER=root \
  -e PMA_PASSWORD=changeme \
  -e UPLOAD_LIMIT=200M \
  -p 8083:80 \
  --network proxy \
  phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin:latest

Additional Notes / Gotchas

Not for production use — there is no built-in authentication layer beyond the database credentials.
Set PMA_ARBITRARY=1 to connect to any database server by hostname at login time.

Dockhand Stack, Deploy from Git

Cookbooks Repository stackname: PHPMYADMIN_DEV Compose file path: phpmyadmin_dev/compose.yaml Additional env file (optional): phpmyadmin_dev/sample.env

Then "Load" phpmyadmin_dev/sample.env into the Environmental variables in dockhand

Create the Stack

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