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A more thorough tutorial.<br />
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<a href="https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-and-secure-phpmyadmin-on-ubuntu-12-04" rel="ugc">https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-and-secure-phpmyadmin-on-ubuntu-12-04</a>
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A more thorough tutorial.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-and-secure-phpmyadmin-on-ubuntu-12-04 [https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-and-secure-phpmyadmin-on-ubuntu-12-04]

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You might want to change the name of the directory to something that would not be easily guessed and password-protect the directory.
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You might want to change the name of the directory to something that would not be easily guessed and password-protect the directory.

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Before I launch my Drupal site, what's the best practice to hide or mask the login page to phpmyadmin?<br />
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<a href="http://mysiteurl/phpmyadmin" rel="ugc">http://mysiteurl/phpmyadmin</a>&nbsp; - &nbsp;which it is now.
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Before I launch my Drupal site, what's the best practice to hide or mask the login page to phpmyadmin?

http://mysiteurl/phpmyadmin  -  which it is now.

Hide phpMyAdmin from public access?

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