Tutorial: Protect phpMyAdmin On An ISPConfig 3 Server (Debian)

With this small howto I explain how to protect your phpmyadmin installation on your Debian server with ISPConfig3 against hack attempts as much as possible. I assume that you already have an ISPConfig3 server running on Debian, which has been set up according to this howto and that phpmyadmin has been installed from the Debian repository into the directory /usr/share/phpmyadmin. With this default setup you can access phpMyAdmin via:http://www.anywebsit…tld/phpmyadmin, which we’re going to change for security reasons. More…