phpMyAdmin + CentOS 6.0 - Forbidden

Question

I always get this message when I would like access my phpMyAdmin.

w3m localhost/phpmyadmin

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /phpmyadmin/ on this server.

Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS) Server at localhost Port 80

Install steps:

rpm --import http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
yum install http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2- 2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
yum install phpmyadmin

Add Aliases

vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf
Alias /phpmyadmin /usr/share/phpmyadmin
Alias /phpMyAdmin /usr/share/phpmyadmin
Alias /mysqladmin /usr/share/phpmyadmin

Change from cookie to http

vi /usr/share/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php
[...]
 /* Authentication type */
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'http';
[...]

Restart

/etc/init.d/httpd restart

SELinux - /etc/httpd

drwxr-xr-x. root root system_u:object_r:httpd_config_t:s0 .
drwxr-xr-x. root root system_u:object_r:etc_t:s0       ..
drwxr-xr-x. root root system_u:object_r:httpd_config_t:s0 conf
drwxr-xr-x. root root system_u:object_r:httpd_config_t:s0 conf.d
lrwxrwxrwx. root root system_u:object_r:httpd_log_t:s0 logs -> ../../var/log/httpd
lrwxrwxrwx. root root system_u:object_r:httpd_modules_t:s0 modules -> ../../usr/lib64/httpd/modules
lrwxrwxrwx. root root system_u:object_r:httpd_config_t:s0 run -> ../../var/run/httpd

SELinux - /usr/share/phpmyadmin

drwxr-xr-x. root root   system_u:object_r:usr_t:s0       .
drwxr-xr-x. root root   system_u:object_r:usr_t:s0       ..
-rw-r--r--. root root   system_u:object_r:usr_t:s0       browse_foreigners.php
-rw-r--r--. root root   system_u:object_r:usr_t:s0       calendar.php
-rw-r--r--. root root   system_u:object_r:usr_t:s0       changelog.php
-rw-r--r--. root root   system_u:object_r:usr_t:s0       chk_rel.phph
.
.
.
-rw-r--r--. root root   system_u:object_r:usr_t:s0       view_create.php

OS

centos-release-6-0.el6.centos.5.x86_64

Answer 1

I had the same issue.

Only after I changed in php.ini variable

display_errors = Off

to

display_errors = On

Phpadmin started working.. crazy....