From HostThyself

phpMyAdmin is a very popular admin frontend for MySQL database.

[edit] Installation

• Download
• Untar
• Copy to the web server folder (/var/www/html on CentOS)
• Create the config folder and set it writable

mkdir config
chmod a+w config

• Access http://example/phpmyadmin/scripts/setup.php
• Copy config/config.inc.php to top level phpMyAdmin folder and delete config folder to use it.

cp config/config.inc.php .
rm -rf config

My preferred configuration

Compress connection
Authentication type Cookie