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Bitnami: For security reasons, this URL is only accessible using localhost (127.0.0.1) as the hostname

could not access phpmyadmin : http://ip/phpmyadmin

it is showing “For security reasons, this URL is only accessible using localhost (127.0.0.1) as the hostname.”

Please suggest me to solve this problem.

Solution

  • Bitnami Engineer here,

    For security reasons, phpMyAdmin is accessible only when using 127.0.0.1 as the hostname. To access it from a remote system, you must create an SSH tunnel that routes requests to the Web server from 127.0.0.1. This implies that you must be able to connect to your server over SSH in order to access these applications remotely.

    • In Windows, you can configure Putty or the SSH client you have to redirect all the request to a specific port (the 8888 one for example) in your machine to the 80 port of the remote machine.

    • For Unix systems, you can use this command to create the SSH tunnel

    ssh -N -L 8888:127.0.0.1:80 -i KEYFILE bitnami@SERVER-IP

    and then use http://localhost:8888/phpmyadmin in the browser.

    You can learn more about this in our documentation

    https://docs.bitnami.com/aws/apps/wordpress/get-started/access-phpmyadmin/