Installing PHPmyAdmin 4.9.1 on MacOs Catalina 10.15

Prerequisites:

MacOS Catalina V 10.15

MySQL 8.0.18

Steps:

1. Go to https://www.phpmyadmin.net/downloads/ and download the Version 4.9.1 all languages.
2. Open the terminal:

cd /Users/your-user/Sites/
mkdir phpmyadmin

3. Extract the downloaded files inside the newly created phpmyadmin/ folder

Open the terminal and do:

sudo mkdir /var/mysql
sudo ln -s /tmp/mysql.sock /var/mysql/mysql.sock
sudo mkdir phpmyadmin/config
sudo chmod o+w phpmyadmin/config

4. Open the browser and point it to http://127.0.0.1/phpmyadmin/setup

5. In the overview tab, servers section, click “new server” and go to the “authentication” tab and add:

username: root
Password: your-password

6. Go to http://127.0.0.1/phpmyadmin/

It should work.