I created an Ubuntu server instance on Amazon EC2 and installed php, postgreSQL, phppgadmin, and any other required features.
After SSH’ing into the server using command prompt, I executed the following operations:
'sudo apt-get update'
'sudo apt-get install apache2 libapache2-mod-php5 php5'
'sudo apt-get install postgresql postgresql-contrib'
'sudo apt-get update'
'sudo apt-get install phppgadmin'
'sudo nano /etc/apache2/conf.d/phppgadmin'
- uncomment line 'allow from all', save and exit
'sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default'
add the following text:
<Directory "/usr/share/phppgadmin">
AuthUserFile /etc/phppgadmin/.htpasswd
AuthName "Restricted Area"
AuthType Basic
require valid-user
</Directory>
- save and exit
'sudo apt-get install apache2-utils'
'sudo service apache2 restart'
'sudo cp /etc/apache2/conf.d/phppgadmin /etc/apache2/conf-enabled/phppgadmin.conf'
'sudo service apache2 restart
The result:
http://ec2-54-174-161-124.compute-1.amazonaws.com/phppgadmin/
My issue now is that I don’t know what to do so that I can access phppgadmin and start creating a database. A tutorial explained how to setup a password to access the page that was linked to above, but this did not work because as you can see, the page is accessible without a password.
My questions:
1) It is an issue (in terms of security) that there is no password to access the page that I linked to? If so, how can I fix this?
2) How can I gain access to phppgadmin after I click on the ‘PostgreSQL’ link in the sidebar that shows a container with a red X on it? I have searched and searched and I can’t figure out how to setup a user or access it as an administrator/root/postgres user
