2008/6/18 Scott Silva <ssilva@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > 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". > > -- > MailScanner is like deodorant... > You hope everybody uses it, and > you notice quickly if they don't!!!! > Thanks for the tip, Scott. I'll rename it again. Kind regards, Herta
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