On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 01:02:47PM +0200, 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?
No, because phpmyadmin.conf is a @sample. It will only be overwritten if it was
not locally modified.
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Antoine
