phpmyadmin is 404 file not found

[CSU-Bill]

I hope I have not posted this in the wrong location.

While following your instructions at http://www.howtoforge.com/installing...ntu-10.10-lamp I had a learning curve. Thank you for providing a good set of instructions.

I have played with Linux (Ubuntu) for a very short time. I need a server, so decided to build one. I first loaded the latest Ubuntu (10.10) and then searched for instructions. I tried several and ended up reloading Ubuntu a few times (I have since learned how to un-install things). I found your instructions and loaded MySQL (have not checked it yet), Apache2 (It Works!), PHP5 (Vi was another learning experience, but info.php works). Then I tried to install PHPMyAdmin.

First, I made a mistake and said yes to using dbconfig-common for setting up the database. That got me into a loop asking for a password. This is where I learned "apt-get --purge remove phpmyadmin" and again started the phpmyadmin install. This last one appeared to work, but there are no files in the www folder other than info.php and index.html.

What should I do now? Should I get the phpmyadmin page from my windows machine (and any supporting php include files)? Should I try another install of phpmyadmin? Is there a file folder I can check to see if the files installed?

[falko]

Can you post the outputs of

ls -la /etc/apache2/conf.d/

and

ls -la /etc/phpmyadmin/

?

[CSU-Bill]

The result of ls -la /etc/apache2/conf.d/
is:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2011-03-06 21:52 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 2011-03-06 16:51 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 269 2010-11-18 16:16 charset
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 45 2011-03-06 21:52 javascript-common.conf -> /etc/javascript-common/javascript-common.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3296 2010-11-18 16:16 localized-error-pages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 143 2010-11-18 16:16 other-vhosts-access-log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1481 2010-11-18 16:16 security

The output of ls -la /etc/phpmyadmin/
is:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2011-03-06 21:52 .
drwxr-xr-x 142 root root 12288 2011-03-08 17:45 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 871 2011-02-15 14:04 apache.conf
-rw-r----- 1 root www-data 517 2011-03-06 21:52 config-db.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 168 2011-02-15 14:04 config.footer.inc.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 168 2011-02-15 14:04 config.header.inc.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3918 2011-02-15 14:04 config.inc.php
-rw-r----- 1 root www-data 8 2011-03-06 21:52 htpasswd.setup
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 570 2011-02-15 14:04 lighttpd.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 295 2011-02-15 14:04 phpmyadmin.service

Hope that provides what you asked for.

Bill

[falko]

Please try this:

ln -s /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

[CSU-Bill]

Falko,

Thanks. I know I am getting closer to having things operational. Once I remembered to sudo su, I managed to get to the PHPMyAdmin login.

When I tried to login, I received this: #1045 Cannot log in to the MySQL server

What do I need to do now?

Is there a phpmyadmin config file that I need to edit?

Do I need to do something to MySQL?

Getting closer one-step-at-a-time.

[falko]

What's the output of

netstat -tap

?