[Solved] phpMyAdmin as subdirectory of localhost

[francislavoie]

Path matching in Caddy is exact, so /phpmyadmin will only match exactly /phpmyadmin and nothing else.

Request matchers (Caddyfile) - Caddy Documentation

But I don’t recommend using path matchers in site addresses, it more complicated than necessary. Best to use handle blocks, which reduce ambiguity in the config.

@adarshahd

        root * /var/www/html/phpmyadmin/
        php_fastcgi unix//run/php-fpm/www.sock

You’ll also need file_server so that Caddy serves the static files (like HTML, JS, CSS) that it’ll serve.

Also, I generally recommend using subdomains rather than subpaths. Many apps don’t behave well when proxied under a subpath (I know that phpmyadmin generally works well though). Explained here:

The "subfolder problem", OR, "why can't I reverse proxy my app into a subfolder?"

Have you ever tried to reverse proxy an app into its own little subfolder of your domain name? Makes things neat, doesn’t it? Using example.com/foo/ for one app, example.com/bar/ for another. If you’re coming here from one of the selfhosted communities, you might be thinking along the lines of example.com/sonarr/, example.com/radarr/ etc. Chances are, you’ve tried some configuration along these lines: example.com { redir /sonarr /sonarr/ handle_path /sonarr/* { reverse_proxy localhost…

You can instead use a subdomain like phpmyadmin.localhost which will automatically resolve to 127.0.0.1 on most Linux systems.

http://phpmyadmin.localhost {
	root * /var/www/html/phpmyadmin
	php_fastcgi unix//run/php-fpm/www.sock
	file_server
}