phpMyAdmin

[Guest]

At present I use Wamp for building sites both using php and for testing Drupal, s now I have finally got Kubuntu running on VMware it was time to install LAMP followed some instructions here http://groups.drupal.org/node/6266 and Apache is running, tested on Localhost and "It Works" and also tested php and get the phpinfo page, but I cannot seem to get phpmyadmin working, tried to follow all the instructions and others on the web about configuring the apache.conf file but I am no further forward.
Any failsafe instructions out there on how to get this working please?

[doctordruidphd]

Re: phpMyAdmin

Setting this up is truly a pain. No, no failsafe instructions.

What exactly happens when you point your browser to: http://localhost/phpmyadmin ?

Take a look at the FAQ page here: http://www.phpmyadmin.net/documentation/#faqI

Is mysql actually running?
ps aux | grep mysqld

Can you get into mysql with:
mysql --user=user_name --password=your_password

[Ole Juul]

Re: phpMyAdmin

I notice that the link you gave refers to phpmyadmin as an optional extension. Have you actually installed it? Dos the page come up (http:// server/phpmyadmin/) at all? Do you have the mysql database in the default directory? If not you need to change /etc/mysql/my.cnf and /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.mysqld

Just a few thoughts.

Edit: I was just looking at my notes when I found this note to my self, you may find it useful as well.

(Open /var/lib/phpmyadmin/blowfish_secret.inc.php and )
(you'll find the 'blowfish' config line. Copy that and )
(paste it into the file /etc/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php )