On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 22:31:58 -0600 Paul Johnson <pauljohn32 at gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> > wrote: > > On 1/5/2011 10:42 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > > What is keeping it from working with the supplied: > > Alias /phpMyAdmin /usr/share/phpMyAdmin > > (i.e. to the install location)? > > > > -- > > Les Mikesell > > lesmikesell at gmail.com > > You mean to say it does work for you, as delivered? Or that it ought > to work for me, but you are just guessing? > > In RedHat 6, at least, I cannot get ANY application to work if it does > not offer files up from /var/www/html (no matter what the http config > says). I now *THINK* the reason is SELinux. I understand http > configuration, SELinux is a whole different problem. I understand > the concept, but the tools to configure it are mysterious. The system > will not offer things from /usr/share or whatnot, even if I alter the > httpd config to allow it. The mediawiki RPM comes along with an > httpd.conf file that tries to allow it. But the system won't allow > it. Today I realized will not allow symbolic links from /var/www/html > pointing into "safe" parts of the file system. In case this helps, this was the setup I had for the beta of RHEL v6 (still have, I just don't boot to that partition much) in my httpd.conf file for an alias for phpmyadmin, I just followed the example for the Alias icons already in the file: Alias phpMyAdmin "/usr/share/phpMyAdmin" <Directory "/usr/share/phpMyAdmin"> Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> And for virtual hosts under localhost I had the 'default' under /var/www/html and the others under /var/www (i.e. testsite1 and 2). No SELinux issues then, but that was the beta. Cia W