On 5 January 2011 16:42, Paul Johnson pauljohn32@gmail.com wrote:
In Centos 5.5, I've had this same experience over and over. I have no trouble installing CGI programs the old fashioned way (untar into /var/www/html and configure), but don't like un-rpm managed files floating about. So I can install, for example, phpMyAdmin, from EPEL.
That phpMyAdmin RPM drops files into a bunch of locations, the php files are under /usr/share/phpMysql
and then there are also:
/etc/httpd/conf.d/phpMyAdmin.conf /etc/phpMyAdmin /etc/phpMyAdmin/config.inc.php
and this:
/var/lib/phpMyAdmin /var/lib/phpMyAdmin/config /var/lib/phpMyAdmin/save /var/lib/phpMyAdmin/upload
In order to make this actually work on the web server, I copy the directory /usr/share/phpMyAdmin into /var/www/html and then I edit the /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpMyAdmin.conf. Then it works.
I don't think that step is necessary. The contents of /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpMyAdmin.conf (specifically the two Alias lines) should ensure that the software works fine without moving it.
I don't have a Centos box that I can test on right now, but I've just installed phpMyAdmin on this Fedora 14 box for the first time (using yum) and it all just works. All I did was to restart the server.
If it's not working for you, then are you sure that your Apache is configured to use the files in /etc/httpd/conf.d? If the config file is being loaded successfully, then I can't see why it wouldn't work.
Dave...