-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 what does your /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf look like? By default, it has a Allow 127.0.0.1 in it. Scott Silva wrote: | on 6-18-2008 10:32 AM Herta Van den Eynde spake the following: |> Environment: |> - CentOS 5.1, |> - Apache 2.2.3 |> - php 5.1.6 |> - phpMyAdmin 2.11.6 |> - MySQL 5.0.22 |> |> Brand new system, brand new installation of all the above products. |> All looks well, but when I try to connect to phpMyAdmin, I get an |> error: "Forbidden: You don't have permission to access /phpMyAdmin/ |> on this server". |> |> I'll forgo all the paths I followed trying to get this to work and cut |> to the "solution": I renamed the phpMyAdmin directory to pma, copied |> all files in the pma directory to a new phpMyAdmin (FWIIW, using 'cp |> -pr'), and voil?, problem vanished. (I cannot explain why I even |> tried that.) |> |> My first idea was that maybe the copy somehow resolved some issue at |> the directory level, but when I output an 'ls -laR' of the two |> directories to two files, 'diff' shows both files to be identical |> (apart from the timestamps on . and .. directories). The pma and |> phpMyAdmin directories reside in the same documentroot, have the same |> ownership, and the same permissions. |> |> This must be about the weirdest experience in my professional career. |> If anyone can shed a light on this, it'd be most welcome. I still |> have the original (malfunctioning) directory on the system to bounce |> ideas off if anyone has any inspiration (system will go live this |> weekend). |> |> Kind regards, |> |> Herta | Just a side note, but "pma" is one of the directories the script kiddies | hammer on my servers regularly. You had better hide it better than that, | or make sure it isn't accessible from the "world". | | | - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | _______________________________________________ | CentOS mailing list | CentOS at centos.org | http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos - -- Milton Calnek BSc, A/Slt(Ret.) milton at calnek.com 306-717-8737 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIWWBYHgnbf2T2QqMRAnS8AKCiCHPalrXmuvVhD+25eynB0VNEvQCghoy1 DtdxwND9e32HiODRzHDvAWc= =AYkD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.