How to use phpMyAdmin

[Basher52]

I usually install this by getting a gzip'd file, but now I used yum to install it, but I cant find the web files and I cant find how to start it at all
any clues?

oh.. this is in F10

[Void Main]

Do an "rpm -qil <packagename>" where packagename is the name of the installed package (phpMyAdmin or whatever it's name is) and it will list the location of all the files.

[Void Main]

I just realized you probably meant phpMyAdmin is now included in the Fedora repository. I originally thought you got it off of the phpMyAdmin download site in RPM format. I have only done the tar install as well. I just yum installed it and it installs the actual files under /usr/share/phpMyAdmin and exposes that same directory off your web root:

http://localhost/phpMyAdmin/

You may have to restart httpd after installing it.

[Basher52]

How can it expose this directory when it's the /var/www/html that is the web root.

[Void Main]

Look at its configuration file and you'll see. The config file is /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpMyAdmin.conf. You can actually use either /phpMyAdmin or /phpmyadmin (see the Alias lines).

[Basher52]

yeah I see that, but I always thought that it's what httpd.conf has as its DocumentRoot that decides this.

[Void Main]

Any *.conf file in /etc/httpd/conf.d is essentially part of httpd.conf. Those files get included as part of the configuration via this line in httpd.conf:

Code: Select all

Include conf.d/*.conf

It's been that way for quite some time now and really makes things a lot neater by modularizing the config file. All an app such as phpMyAdmin has to do is include a separate *.conf file with it's customizations into that directory rather than having to worry about modifying the existing httpd.conf file.

[Basher52]

DOH!!

I should have thought of that