From a29167a1217670fc5962143913c81cff6701d358 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marc Delisle Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 16:45:40 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] bug #1022338 --- ChangeLog | 4 ++++ Documentation.html | 8 ++++++-- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 7dffa828d..9b08f6ade 100755 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ phpMyAdmin - Changelog $Id$ $Source$ +2004-09-09 Marc Delisle + * Documentation.html: bug #1022338: clarify about needed chown -R + on the scripts (otherwise, problems in PHP safe mode) + 2004-09-07 Marc Delisle * main.php: bug #992211, wrong parameters to PMA_generate_common_hidden_inputs(), thanks to Ryan Schmidt diff --git a/Documentation.html b/Documentation.html index b1e726844..007b221a0 100755 --- a/Documentation.html +++ b/Documentation.html @@ -146,7 +146,10 @@ tar -xzvf phpMyAdmin_x.x.x.tar.gz in your webserver's document root. If you don't have direct access to your document root, put the files in a directory on your local machine, and, after step 3, - transfer the directory on your web server using, for example, ftp. + transfer the directory on your web server using, for example, ftp.
  • Ensure that all the scripts have the appropriate owner (if PHP is + running in safe mode, having some scripts with an owner different + from the owner of other scripts will be a + problem). See FAQ 4.2 for suggestions.
  • Open the file config.inc.php in your favorite editor and change the values for host, user, password and authentication mode to fit your environment. Here, "host" means the MySQL server. @@ -2960,6 +2963,7 @@ To create a new, empty mimetype please see libraries/transformations/template_ge "Using HTTP authentication".

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    [4.2] What's the preferred way of making phpMyAdmin secure against evil access. @@ -2979,7 +2983,7 @@ To create a new, empty mimetype please see libraries/transformations/template_ge Your config.inc.php file should be chmod 660.

  • - All your phpMyAdmin files should be chown phpmy.apache, where phpmy + All your phpMyAdmin files should be chown -R phpmy.apache, where phpmy is a user whose password is only known to you, and apache is the group under which Apache runs.