On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 5:07 AM, Isvaran Krishnamurthy <Isvaran.Krishnamurthy at sun.com> wrote: > > Peter Tribble wrote: >
I see from your later message that you've addressed the config location issue. > 2.1.2 File to configure apache with a new URL mapping for > /phpmyadmin > > /etc/apache2/2.2/conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf > > What is the mechanism for a user to enable phpmyadmin? > > I don't think I understood the question correctly. There's no enabling on > phpmyadmin. Once the url mapping is done it is served by apache directly. > And the URL mapping is done only inside a <IfModule > mod_php.c>....</IfModule> block. Presumably, though, phpMyAdmin isn't include in the default apache configuration? Or, to ask the question directly: if the phpMyAdmin package is installed, will the url mapping be enabled by default? I would expect not. But it seems that it is. However, it appears that the supplied apache httpd.conf simply Includes conf.d/*.conf so that everything installed is enabled by default. I'm not at all sure that's a good idea, but that's a more general problem and isn't a specific problem with phpMyAdmin. (This behaviour is different from the default apache behaviour I'm used to - and was expecting - where everything has to be explicitly enabled.) > 3.1 Documentation files > > /usr/share/phpmyadmin/Documentation.html > /usr/share/phpmyadmin/Documentation.txt > > > How does the user discover this documentation? > > phpMyAdmin provides a link to the documentation. My confusion is that I was expecting phpMyAdmin to be disabled by default, which leads to the chicken and egg problem of how to read the documentation. However, the question is still valid: how does a user know where to point their browser to? -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
