On 03/21/17 12:02, Paul Irofti wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 07:56:55AM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
>> On 2017/03/20 15:03, Paul Irofti wrote:
>>> phpMyAdmin has been installed into ${INSTDIR}.
>>>
>>> If using Apache, you can make this accessible to clients by enabling
>>> -the configuration file:
>>> +mod_rewrite in ${SYSCONFDIR}/apache2/httpd2.conf, the mysql php module,
>>> +and the configuration file:
>>>
>>> # ln -s ../modules.sample/phpmyadmin.conf /var/www/conf/modules/
>>> + # cp /etc/php-5.6.sample/mysqli.ini /etc/php-5.6/
>>
>> Please symlink rather than cp, and use variables so this doesn't
>> get stale after a PHP update:
>>
>> # ln -s ../php-${MODPHP_VERSION}.sample/mysqli.ini
>> ${SYSCONFDIR}/php-${MODPHP_VERSION}/
>
> Good point on the variables!
>
> I actually wanted to discus ln -s vs. cp. Isn't this a bad idea in
> general? For the php bit I agree that it is useless to copy, but for the
> phpmyadmin.conf I think it's actually required to cp instead of link: if
> I customize the config I also modify the sample file which will get
> overwritten by an update or pkg_add will scream about a bad checksum,
> right?
>
exactly, config.inc.php should not be a symlink.
Giovanni
