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Referencing this tutorial: https://www.liquidweb.com/kb/how-to-install-and-configure-phpmyadmin-on-ubuntu-14-04/ for installing PHP-Admin, after installing the package, on "Step 2: Basic Configuration" some questions need to be filled out by the user.

Is it possible to complete these configurations entirely via Shell Script from the command line?

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  • I would assume so but just a guess. I wonder if that screen pops up automatically after the install or do you have to run something first? Commented Jun 13, 2017 at 16:54
  • Thanks for replying! I have created a shell script for that and when I execute this command : apt install apache2 mysql-server php libapache2-mod-php phpmyadmin python python-mysqldb the referred screens show up. I would like to answer these questions via shell script avoiding user input but maybe is not possible. Commented Jun 13, 2017 at 17:15
  • I know you want a shell script. I asked about the screen thing to see if it popped up on its own or if you had to trigger it. Looks like Esa gives a fix for turning off this. Commented Jun 13, 2017 at 17:31
  • Debian packages tend to be interactive and there are a variety of imperfect methods for working around that. I'd rather work on an rpm-based system that can be scripted without worrying about interactive BS. Commented Jun 13, 2017 at 20:50

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Basically the first thing to do is skipping any interactive post-install configuration steps.

export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -yq install phpmyadmin

This will skip all the questions made by dpkg-preconfigure.

Then, you need to do configuration manually i.e. automate it by yourself by making your script to either create or copy configuration. The local configuration file is in /etc/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php and you can find some configuration examples in /usr/share/doc/phpmyadmin/examples/. For security, passwords should be included from a separate file with permissions -rw-r----- root www-data.

The dpkg-reconfigure phpmyadmin reads and writes from /etc/dbconfig-common/phpmyadmin.conf. Your script could be something like this:

export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -yq install phpmyadmin cp /path/to/preconfigured-phpmyadmin.conf /etc/dbconfig-common/phpmyadmin.conf dpkg-reconfigure --frontend=noninteractive phpmyadmin
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I hope this script helps. I am still working out how to automate apache configuration

export DEBIAN_FRONTEND="noninteractive" sudo apt update sudo apt install -yq phpmyadmin # Set the MySQL administrative user's password sudo debconf-set-selections <<< "phpmyadmin phpmyadmin/dbconfig-install boolean true" sudo debconf-set-selections <<< "phpmyadmin phpmyadmin/mysql/admin-user string root" sudo debconf-set-selections <<< "phpmyadmin phpmyadmin/mysql/admin-pass password $MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD" sudo debconf-set-selections <<< "phpmyadmin phpmyadmin/mysql/app-pass password $MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD" sudo debconf-set-selections <<< "phpmyadmin phpmyadmin/reconfigure-webserver multiselect apache2" sudo dpkg-reconfigure -f noninteractive phpmyadmin echo "Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf" >> /etc/apache2/apache2.conf sudo service apache2 restart echo "Apache service restarted"
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