You don't have permission to access /phpmyadmin/ on this server.

jonaskellens · 08-27-2009, 05:11 PM

I am connected via OpenVPN to the server that has PhpMyAdmin installed. The server is 10.10.0.1 and my client is 10.10.0.2.

When I want to access phpmyadmin, the webpage states :

Code:

You don't have permission to access /phpmyadmin/ on this server.

This is my config :

Code:

bash-3.2# cat /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf 
<Directory "/usr/share/phpmyadmin">
  Order Deny,Allow
  Deny from all
  Allow from 10.10.0.2
</Directory>

Why don't I have permission ??

Extra info :

Code:

[jonas@jonas ~]$ ifconfig tun0
tun0      Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00  
          inet addr:10.10.0.2  P-t-P:10.10.0.1  Mask:255.255.255.255
          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1282 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1145 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
          RX bytes:1012756 (989.0 KiB)  TX bytes:113557 (110.8 KiB)

Log states :

Code:

[Fri Aug 28 00:11:56 2009] [error] [client 10.10.0.2] Directory index forbidden by Options directive: /usr/share/phpmyadmin/
[Fri Aug 28 00:11:59 2009] [error] [client 10.10.0.2] Directory index forbidden by Options directive: /usr/share/phpmyadmin/
[Fri Aug 28 00:15:04 2009] [error] [client 10.10.0.2] Directory index forbidden by Options directive: /usr/share/phpmyadmin/

anomie · 08-27-2009, 05:24 PM

Apache is not finding an index page (e.g. .html, .php) to serve, so it's trying to display a directory index. But... you've disabled that (which is probably fine because it's not what you're trying to do anyway).

What have you provided for the DirectoryIndex directive in httpd.conf?

jonaskellens · 08-27-2009, 05:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by anomie

What have you provided for the DirectoryIndex directive in httpd.conf?

Code:

DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var

I left everything default...

I just need httpd for running PhpMyAdmin...

anomie · 08-27-2009, 05:39 PM

If you haven't already, install mod_php.

And what distro is this? Fedora? CentOS?

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edit: On some distros, mod_php is included with the php package.

jonaskellens · 08-27-2009, 05:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by anomie

If you haven't already, install mod_php.

And what distro is this? Fedora? CentOS?

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edit: On some distros, mod_php is included with the php package.

This is CentOS 5.3.
Re-installing the php-package made it work.
Thanks for the help !

dgreenhouse · 12-19-2009, 02:25 PM

I had this same issue.

I noticed that when I uncompressed the phpMyAdmin archive and moved it to the target location I was getting the permissions error.

I performed a copy (cp) of the uncompressed folder and it worked!
(I downloaded the english only archive)

(Note: I'm running CentOS 5.4 i386)

Steps...

0- After downloading the tar file to /tmp
1- cd /tmp
2- tar -xzvf phpMyAdmin-3.2.4-english.tar.gz
3- cp -Rf phpMyAdmin-3.2.4-english /usr/share/phpmyadmin
4- echo "alias /phpmyadmin /usr/share/phpmyadmin" > /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf
4a- You can add <DirectoryIndex ...> ... </DirectoryIndex> to phpmyadmin.conf, but I'm running locally for the moment and didn't need it. The alias command worked just fine.
5- cp /usr/share/phpmyadmin/config.sample.inc.php /usr/share/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php
6- Make the appropriate changes to: config.inc.php
7- service httpd restart or /etc/init.d/httpd restart

After that, it worked just fine...