BusyBee Debian

PHP and PHPMyAdmin

Today I've installed PHP4 and PHPMyAdmin on the debian box. It seems that Debian use a really old version of PHP4 (based on 4.1.2). Installation was a breeze. Just use apt-get php4 and it'll get the package. However there are manual configurations that need to be done to turn "on" php4. I'll detail it out here.

First you need to go into /etc/apache/httpd.conf and uncomment the lines that read,

LoadModule php4_module libexec/libphp4.so

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

Then just do a restart by doing

apachectl graceful

After that, grab the phpmyadmin using apt-get. After getting, make sure you have set the password for you mysql root user by doing

mysqladmin -u root password yourpasswordhere

If you done this already then there is no need to do it again. You may also wish to set the password for root@yourmachinename (the previous command would only set the root@localhost password). To do this go into mysql by typing

mysql -u root -p

Enter your password that you have specified earlier and at the prompt. Just type

set password for root@yourmachinename=password('yourpasswordhere');

Also the /usr/doc/phpmyadmin/README.Debian mentioned that you should give additional privileges for a user, that is:

 GRANT USAGE ON mysql.* to 'root@yourmachinename;

Posted by zoo at February 23, 2003 07:10 PM