Recently I chanced upon installing phpMyAdmin on a Linux server running nginx as a backend and Varnish as a reverse proxy. I faced a few problems which took hours of googling to solve so here I am writing this article to make your life easier. This article assumes you already have a web server up and running along with PHP, MySQL and have configured Varnish as a reverse proxy. Most of the problems I faced are because I already had wordpress running on that server, so I had configured Varnish to accept cookies from ONLY “(wp-admin|wp-login)” URLs this turned out to be a disaster for phpMyAdmin even after I configured a “return(pass)” for its URL.Continue Reading…