Description of problem: When users install phpMyAdmin on their machines, they expect phpMyAdmin to work out of the box. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): phpMyAdmin-3.1.5-1.fc11.noarch How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install phpMyAdmin 2. type http://localhost/phpMyAdmin/ 3. type username 'root' with no password Actual results: phpMyAdmin repeats question Expected results: phpMyAdmin to show databases
actually, above link does not work, it gives: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /phpMyAdmin/ on this server. Apache/2.2.11 (Fedora) Server at localhost Port 80 you need to type http://127.0.0.1/phpMyAdmin/ in order to see phpMyAdmin.
Marek, thanks for your report. I'm the co-maintainer of phpMyAdmin in Fedora. If http://127.0.0.1/phpMyAdmin/ works and http://localhost/phpMyAdmin/ doesn't work, this is an Apache configuration thing, which phpMyAdmin configuration can not trigger. When re-trying your scenario with "yum install httpd phpMyAdmin -y; /etc/init.d /httpd restart" and trying to access it, it works as expected - login dialog of phpMyAdmin appears. If you don't enter a password for the root user and get an error, this depends on your MySQL configuration and is correct as well. If you've set a password after installing MySQL, then you must enter that password as well. And in case if no password has been set after MySQL installation, you must set one using the appropriate command as you get told during MySQL installation. Everything seems to be as expected, can't see your issue.
(In reply to comment #2) > If http://127.0.0.1/phpMyAdmin/ works and http://localhost/phpMyAdmin/ doesn't > work, this is an Apache configuration thing, which phpMyAdmin configuration can > not trigger. maybe because I am using VirtualHosts... on Fedora 10 I used virtual hosts too and could access phpMyAdmin via http://localhost/phpMyAdmin/ without any problems. > If you don't enter a password for the root user and get an error, this depends > on your MySQL configuration and is correct as well. If you've set a password > after installing MySQL, then you must enter that password as well. And in case > if no password has been set after MySQL installation, you must set one using > the appropriate command as you get told during MySQL installation. Everything > seems to be as expected, can't see your issue. mysql's root user had no password, so I expected phpMyAdmin to let me in with the username root and no password. when I set password for root user in mysql, phpMyAdmin accepted it and allowed me to manage data bases.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle. Changing version to '11'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
On a plain Fedora 11 installation, phpMyAdmin installs works as expected and definately same as on Fedora 10. In case phpMyAdmin doesn't behave same, this is a local configuration issue at your system - sorry.