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1. Install phpMyAdmin.

• apt-get install phpmyadmin

2. Select neither Apache nor Lighttpd for the web server selection as we want to run it in Nginx.
 

3. And say NO for the Configure database for phpmyadmin with dbconfig-common?
 

4. Append the following settings in /etc/nginx/sites-available/default. Place it inside the server{}.
/etc/nginx/sites-available/default

location /phpmyadmin {
  root /usr/share/;
  index index.php index.html index.htm;
  location ~ ^/phpmyadmin/(.+\.php)$ {
    try_files $uri =404;
    root /usr/share/;
    fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
    fastcgi_index index.php;
    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
  }
  location ~* ^/phpmyadmin/(.+\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico|html|xml|txt))$ {
    root /usr/share/;
  }
}
location /phpMyAdmin {
  rewrite ^/* /phpmyadmin last;
}

5. Restart the Nginx/

• /etc/init.d/nginx restart

6. Browse the following URL.

http://<your domain>/phpmyadmin

Done =)

Reference:

• Running phpMyAdmin On Nginx (LEMP) On Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.04
• Ubuntu 12.04 MariaDB / MySQL Database Node ( Nginx + php5-fpm + phpMyAdmin + tuning )