I finally got everything to work except phpMyAdmin

Check chown settings for phpmyadmin, first. Make sure it's owned by the httpd's user.

I would move away from using phpmyAdmin, for one simple reason, you really DON'T need a security vulnerability on your server that has full access to your database.

What I started using is HeidiSQL (a windows client: http://www.heidisql.com/ ).

The beauty behind HeidiSQL is that you can leave mysql running over loopback (disable tcp/ip), and SSH tunnel the client to your server, and connect over localhost.

You maintain a great level of security in this fashion, and HeidiSQL is much faster and responsive than phpmyadmin ever could be. Give it a try, I personally have switched awhile back, and never looked back.

I don't think Ubuntu allows access to phpmyadmin from any place other than localhost by default. Maybe ISPConfig adds further complications. But anyway, I'd try again using an SSH tunnel to the same server.

@hybinet:

I don't think Ubuntu allows access to phpmyadmin from any place other than localhost by default. Maybe ISPConfig adds further complications. But anyway, I'd try again using an SSH tunnel to the same server.
In the past, when I've installed phpmyadmin using aptitude, I haven't had any problems accessing it remotely. I was using Ubuntu 10.04 though, so it's possible something has changed…