On 5 January 2011 16:42, Paul Johnson <pauljohn32 at 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... -- Dave Cross :: dave at dave.org.uk http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg