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

Question

I installed php, mysql, phpmyadmin on my Ubuntu 12.04 localhost in the following steps:

I try these steps:

sudo apt-get install apache2
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5
sudo apt-get install php5-cli
sudo apt-get install php5-cgi
sudo apt-get install php5-mysql
sudo apt-get install php5-pgsql
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

than after i faced phpmyadmin not found error and fixed using the following answer

How to solve the phpmyadmin not found issue after upgrading php and apache?

After applying that fix I got another error message:

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

How can fix this?

Solution 1

It solved :

sudo apt-get install mysql-server
sudo dpkg-reconfigure phpmyadmin
sudo service apache2 restart

Solution 2

You need to change the permission with:

sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /var/www/  
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www 

Solution 3

1. You should check /etc/apache2 and find the below lines:

   <Directory /usr/share>
       AllowOverride None
       Require all granted
   </Directory>
   

2. the apache2 config should have this line:

   Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf
   

3. Be you you phpadmin config look like this:

   Alias /phpmyadmin /usr/share/phpmyadmin
   
   <Directory /usr/share/phpmyadmin>
       Options FollowSymLinks
       DirectoryIndex index.php
   
       <IfModule mod_php5.c>
           AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
   
           php_flag magic_quotes_gpc Off
           php_flag track_vars On
           php_flag register_globals Off
           php_admin_flag allow_url_fopen Off
           php_value include_path .
           php_admin_value upload_tmp_dir /var/lib/phpmyadmin/tmp
           php_admin_value open_basedir /usr/share/phpmyadmin/:/etc/phpmyadmin/:/var/lib/phpmyadmin/:/usr/share/php/php-gettext/:/usr/share/javascript/
      </IfModule>
   </Directory>
   
   <Directory /usr/share/phpmyadmin/setup>
       <IfModule mod_authn_file.c>
           AuthType Basic
           AuthName "phpMyAdmin Setup"
           AuthUserFile /etc/phpmyadmin/htpasswd.setup
       </IfModule>
       Require valid-user
   </Directory>
   
   <Directory /usr/share/phpmyadmin/libraries>
       Order Deny,Allow
       Deny from All
   </Directory>
   
   <Directory /usr/share/phpmyadmin/setup/lib>
       Order Deny,Allow
       Deny from All
   </Directory>
   

Comments

[Elder Geek]

none of these commands have anything whatsoever to do with permissions that I can see.