SSH Tunnels and phpMyAdmin

Submitted by charles on Wed, 08/09/2010 - 22:30

In order to easily secure phpMyadmin and a number of other services, they are only accessible internally on ther server, users will need to use an SSH tunnel in order to access these.

Helpful guides are available at:

http://www.revsys.com/writings/quicktips/ssh-tunnel.html

and for PuTTY:

http://oldsite.precedence.co.uk/nc/putty.html

If you are using ssh from you PC, try

ssh -f username@technomancer.co.uk -L 8888:localhost:80 -N

and then connect to http://localhost:8888/phpmyadmin (or similar for other services) from your favourite browser.

With PuTTY, set up the rest of the connection as before and then go to SSH -> Tunnels use source port 8888 and destination localhost:80 and click add.

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