phpMyAdmin page not displaying – 404 error

I went to my usual URL for phpMyAdmin, but rather than seeing the login form I saw a 404 page instead. What?! It turns out I was missing some configuration inside of the apache2.conf file.

Let’s fix this

Open up the apache2 configuration file:

sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

And ensure you have this phpMyAdmin include:

#Include phpMyAdmin
Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf

Finally, restart apache

sudo service apache2 restart

Why was phpMyAdmin all of a sudden returning a 404 page? Well I think it’s because I did a software update on my Ubuntu web server and accidentally overwrote my custom apache.conf with the latest library version. Oops!