On Thursday 07 of April 2005 11:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> the htaccess from phpmyadmin "enable" extension and
> access. Thus it override the ones in the apache.conf.
>
> It looks quite dangerous security wise. Could the overlapping
> parameters (order, allow mostly) be  removed from one of the file
> ?

You're probably right, the /etc/phpmyadmin/htaccess file shouldn't override 
global configuration but I don't understand why it might be so dangerouse. At 
least it is the conffile which can be modified by administrator.

>
> Regards
> Alban
>
> PS: i have looked around for why phpmyadmin add a symlink in
> /var/www (which could nfs mounted from another server
> theorically ). /var being for data my  opinion is that /var/www
> is an artefact from the days when there was only static http to feed the
> server .(it is also not part of the FHS being replaced by /srv
> that most admin named /data before or used /home/http/) .It
> could be removed from future distributions ...
> Again is there a place to discuss such matters ?

I think the best place shoud be [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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