I have installed phpMyAdmin from the repositories, but I get 403 forbidden when I access http://localhost/phpmyadmin/index.php
Apache is running fine, and so is PHP (I'm using apache2-mpm-worker with fcgi, phpinfo() works just fine).
The repository installation for phpMyAdmin has created a folder /etc/phpmyadmin. There is a file apache.conf there, and a symlink to it from /etc/apache2/conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf. It has this content:
root@srvr-test:/etc/apache2/conf.d# cat phpmyadmin.conf
# phpMyAdmin default Apache configuration
Alias /phpmyadmin /usr/share/phpmyadmin
<Directory /usr/share/phpmyadmin>
Options FollowSymLinks
DirectoryIndex index.php
<IfModule mod_php5.c>
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
php_flag magic_quotes_gpc Off
php_flag track_vars On
php_flag register_globals Off
php_value include_path .
</IfModule>
</Directory>
# Authorize for setup
<Directory /usr/share/phpmyadmin/setup>
<IfModule mod_authn_file.c>
AuthType Basic
AuthName "phpMyAdmin Setup"
AuthUserFile /etc/phpmyadmin/htpasswd.setup
</IfModule>
Require valid-user
</Directory>
# Disallow web access to directories that don't need it
<Directory /usr/share/phpmyadmin/libraries>
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from All
</Directory>
<Directory /usr/share/phpmyadmin/setup/lib>
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from All
</Directory>
The permissions are:
root@srvr-test:/usr/share# ls -la
....
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 2010-11-22 16:28 phpmyadmin
....
root@srvr-test:/usr/share/phpmyadmin# ls -la
total 1128
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 2010-11-22 16:28 .
drwxr-xr-x 110 root root 4096 2010-11-22 16:28 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10829 2010-04-14 05:33 browse_foreigners.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4354 2010-04-14 05:33 bs_change_mime_type.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1797 2010-04-14 05:33 bs_disp_as_mime_type.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2368 2010-04-14 05:33 bs_play_media.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 798 2010-04-14 05:33 calendar.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3565 2010-04-14 05:33 changelog.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 473 2010-04-14 05:33 chk_rel.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 181 2008-12-10 03:00 config.footer.inc.php
....
If I understand correctly, this should work. But it doesn't.
I expected installing from the repositories would be a lot faster. But it doesn't work.
The Ubuntu wiki pages have no information about a 403 Forbidden error.
I'm surprised that this is so difficult… so obviously I'm doing something wrong.
Help! 🙂
Best Answer
Ok, I got it to work. I hope it helps someone by putting it here.
I had to change the /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/fcgid.conf to tell it to use php5-cgi (done already when I asked the question):
Then I had to edit /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf to add +ExecCGI in the section: