Recently, I installed phpMyAdmin from ArchLinux repository and tried to setup it to run on nginx. Compared with the phpMyAdmin instruction on Arch Wiki which is mostly written for apache, the configration on nginx is much easier.

• make a soft link in /srv/http/nginx for phpMyAdmin:
  example: # ln -s /srv/http/nginx/phpMyAdmin /usr/share/webapps/phpMyAdmin
• uncomment extensions(mycrypy.o and mysql.o) in /etc/php/php.ini
• The most important step:modify nginx.conf to support phpMyAdmin:
  example:

  location ~ ^/phpMyAdmin {            root           html; <--- specify the phpMyAdmin directory             fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;            fastcgi_index  index.php;            fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  /scripts$fastcgi_script_name;            include        fastcgi_params;        }

Then, restart php fcgi and nginx services.

PS: using “alias html/phpMyAdmin/” to replace ‘root’ line in nginx.conf is also ok. The difference between root and alias is that root specify the parent directory of the index file, while alias specify the exact directory where the index file locates.