Apache returns 'Forbidden 403' for phpMyAdmin

Notwerk · 01-23-2006, 09:23 PM

When i try to access phpMyAdmin page I get the following error:

Code:

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /phpMyAdmin-2.7.0-pl2/index.php on this server.

Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

I've setup Apache 2.0.53, MySql (3.23.58), PHP (4.3.11) and phpMyAdmin (2.7.0-pl2).

The only thing i didn't stick to during the installation of phpMyAdmin is that i didn't place it in apache's /var/www/html but instead placed it in /var/www (did a chown -R myuser:apache for it) and added the following under /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpMyAdmin.conf

Code:

Alias /mysql "/var/www/phpMyAdmin-2.7.0-pl2"

<Location "/mysql">
        AuthType        Basic
        AuthName        "Private Area - MySQL Administrator"
        AuthUserFile    /etc/httpd/conf/authusers
        AuthGroupFile   /etc/httpd/conf/authgroups
        Require group   sqlusers
#       Require         valid-user
        Options         Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride   None
</Location>

So what gives???

Notwerk · 01-24-2006, 02:04 AM

I figure out the "Why"...

It's because of SELinux. Doing a "#setenforce 0" seems to solve it, cause now the browser is prompting me for a username/password to access the restricted area.

Can anyone help me do the SELinux modifications needed so i can run SELinux but avoid the error mentioned in the previous post?