On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 11:06, Dave Gutteridge wrote:
PHP and MySQL seem to working on my CentOS installation. I'd like to install phpMyAdmin as well, so I downloaded the necessary files from phpMyAdmin's homepage and copied them to /var/www/html...
... except that's where the process stopped. My regular user account doesn't have permission to write into the /var/www/html folder.
When you are installing programs you generally need to run as root.
Should I just chmod the folder to 777? Is there a reason it's not already user accessible?
Most places should not be world-writable. Better to change ownership to whoever needs to write and make it writable by owner or group. If it doesn't matter who sees it, you can make it world readable.
This is a local machine where I'll be testing web pages of my own design, and not accessible from the web.
Or at least I hope not. If I'm running an Apache server just for local files, it's not being seen on the web, is it?
That depends on your firewalls and routing. If you have a public address, it probably is.