phpMyAdmin installation problem on Fedora 8

[Chris G]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:20:32PM -0700, Donald Reader wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 19:04 +0000, Chris G wrote:
> > I'm trying to install and run phpMyAdmin (2.11.5) on Fedora 8.
> > 
> > It's installed OK but when I try and run it I'm asked for a username
> > and password by Apache (i.e. it's an Apache security thing) as
> > follows:-
> > 
> >     Enter username and password for "phpMyAdmin localhost" at
> >     http://home.isbd.net
> > 
> > ... but according to the phpMyAdmin.conf file installed in
> > /etc/httpd/conf.d I shouldn't have to enter a password surely.
> > 
> > 
> > What's making Apache ask for a password?
> > 
> > -- 
> > Chris Green
> > 
> you can root and if you have already set roots password
> in mysql use it otherwise just leave it blank as the default
> for mysql does not have a password.

It's not mysql's password it's asking for, it's a password for
accessing phpMyAdmin.   Ah, oops, not it's not, you're quite right -
thank you!

I already had mysql set up with a non-root mysql master user and that
user/password works.  All done, lovely!

-- 
Chris Green