On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 00:50:43 +0100, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am Mo, den 14.03.2005 schrieb a a um 23:09: > > > my name is Henry > > Hello Henry! > > > now i understand i must hit the reply to ALL button ... i did not > > intend to reply to you personally ... but i did not receive a mail > > from you maybe i deleted it by accident > > I could resend it to you personally, but at all the mail did not contain > anything specific as my own setup is too unspecific and plainly > ordinary. > > > the MySQL is the install that came with FC3 ... i have done nothing > > more than use the update and attempt a phpMyAdmin installation and > > everything stops there > > Ok, no foreign party software besides phpMyAdmin, that limits the > factors for trouble makers. > > > you say you set up the database tables according to the documentation > > but my understanding is this is not a necessary step > > This is correct. > > > all that is necessary is to input a control user and pass, setup the > > control user and pass and grants in mysql, select cookie, start mysql, > > start apachectl, then open the index.php ... but it just wont work > > > > do i need to create databases to view index.php? > > Independent from phpMyAdmin, are you able to login to the MySQL server > on command line using either "mysql" or "mysqladmin"? This should be the > first step to make sure the MySQL connection can be successful at all. > > The phpMyAdmin FAQ lists the case of an empty entry page and suggests to > change the config.inc.php setting of > > $cfg['OBGzip'] > > to be "FALSE" while it is "auto" by default. My setup still has "auto" > set for this. > > Another hint: keep care to have not deleted any " or ' in the > config.inc.php file by accident. I had this once too by error and too > had to face a blank entry page. Corrected the mistyping brought me up > the correct page for the initial authentication. > > Alexander > I have read the reply and everything is in order here. >From the phpMyAdmin help forum a gentleman has posted that the problem may well be with apache and advised that I insert "AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php3" to the httpd.conf which I have now done He also suggested I turn off SELinux and I did so and when I next started apachectl this happened .... # /usr/sbin/apachectl start [Tue Mar 15 00:18:41 2005] [warn] The Alias directive in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.c onf at line 493 will probably never match because it overlaps an earlier AliasMa tch. (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:443 no listening sockets available, shutting down Unable to open logs what does it mean? I thought the server was preconfigured to listening port 80