On Fri, 7 Jan 2011 11:08:39 +0000 Dave Cross <davorg at gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > 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. I just checked the conf.d for RHEL v6 beta and there isn't a phpmyadmin.conf, which is probably why I added the alias to the httpd.conf file. fwiw. So perhaps it's added on Fedora but not on RHEL / CentOS when you install phpmyadmin?