Posted by Randika
on May 17, 2009
After installing phpMyAdmin on fedora (FC10) with yum you may notice this error when trying to access it via a remote node.
Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access /phpMyAdmin on this server.
This may trigger due to the restrictions which assigned with the default config file. Open it with your favorite editor from the path below.
[root@megantereon /]# vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpMyAdmin.conf
by default you can only access phpMyAdmin only over localhost. The rule is here.
Alias /phpMyAdmin /usr/share/phpMyAdmin
order deny,allow
deny from all allow from 127.0.0.1
To allow access over remote web browsers, comment out the lines on the above config file as shown below.
Alias /phpMyAdmin /usr/share/phpMyAdmin
#order deny,allow
#deny from all allow from 127.0.0.1
Posted by Randika
on May 10, 2009
Today I had a new problem with one of a Fedora 8 server. The issue was with “yum”. When I try to install some apps with yum it didn’t work for me. Sorry I can’t really remember the error at this time. But It was something related to Yum repository is not accessible.
First I thought there is some issue with internet, but I was wrong. Internet was fine. The server’s internet connection was running with a proxy. So I realized there is still something to do with yum configuration.
So I had to google a bit to find out a solution or fix for get through the proxy server. here is what I did.
I just execute this command on a shell prompt and yum worked fine for me.
NOTE: my proxy server is 130.10.32.3 on port 9000. make sure to use your one instead 
export http_proxy=http://130.10.xxx.xxx:xxxx
export ftp_proxy=http://130.10.xxx.xxx:xxxx
Alternately you may add this line to /etc/yum.conf
http_proxy=http://130.10.xxx.xxx:xxxx
ftp_proxy=http://130.10.xxx.xxx:xxxx
