On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Sharad Birmiwal <[email protected]> wrote: >> In most cases, phpmyadmin from distro repositories gets installed in >> /usr/share/phpmyadmin >> So that may be a possible reason. If that's the case, make a symbolic >> link in your document root to /usr/share/phpmyadmin or whatever, and >> add Options +FollowSymLinks in .htaccess or httpd.conf in the >> directory where you have linked it. >> I.e., if /var/www/phpmyadmin links /usr/share/phpmyadmin, you should >> have an .htaccess at /var/www/.htaccess which says: >> Options +FollowSymLinks >> > > It is not a good idea to use a symlink in this case IF the > installation in /usr/share/phpmyadmin is owned by root. Not only do > you need to add followsymlinks but apache should be running as root as > well (generally a bad idea). IMHO, if the installation is in > /usr/share/phpmyadmin , it is wiser to copy it from there into > /var/www . > > Thanks, > Sharad > > -- > l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm >
How does it matter if it's owned by root? In most cases, you don't need write access. If you do want write access, then copying is the best solution. -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com VPS Hosting: http://www.itech7.com/a/vps -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
