phpMyAdmin woes

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Was wondering if anyone has had this problem before..

I installed phpMyAdmin with YUM from the RpmForge repository. I'm on CentOS 5.

It installed to /usr/share/phpmyadmin/.

I did

# cp -r /usr/share/phpmyadmin/ /home/example.com/public_html/phpmyadmin/
# cd /home/example.com/public_html/
# chown -R example.com:example.com phpmyadmin/

So I go to example.com/phpmyadmin, get 403 Forbidden errors. I check the Apache error log and see:

... client denied by server configuration: /usr/share/phpmyadmin/

So one, how on Earth is it somehow linking back to /usr/share/??

I did NOT do any linking, or symbolic linking, or anything of the sort. No Aliases in httpd.conf.

So, to troubleshoot I added:

Alias /phpmyadmin/ /home/example.com/public_html/phpmyadmin/

So then I no longer get any Forbidden errors and can then access phpMyAdmin (the error screen that says I need to run the config, anyway).

But... Problem #2:

I can't run setup.php in the scripts folder. The page loads, buttons don't do anything. So I manually config config.inc.php. With the manual config done, I finally go back to example.com/phpmyadmin.

So.. it doesn't load.

Check Apache error logs and see:

... user root not found: /phpmyadmin/

It's still trying to link back to /usr/share/ !!!

So I chown /usr/share/phpmyadmin/

# chown -R example.com:example.com /usr/share/phpmyadmin/

Now phpMyAdmin works.

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So, why is it doing this? I made no symbolic links. There is nothing else anywhere in httpd.conf referring to phpMyAdmin other than the Alias I had to set up. I even restarted the server. Restarted all the processes.

Thanks for any help.