Trying to install MAMP on new machine and having problems

[Ali A Samii]

http://pma/ now loads the login page for phpMyAdmin, but it will not accept my username "root" and the password I set. How do I change the password again?
On 19 Nov, 2010, at 05:16 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:

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> On Nov 18, 2010, at 22:07, Ali A Samii wrote:
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>> Hi, don't know if anyone else has had a chance to read this over the past 24 hours since I sent the previous reply, but still hoping to get a response, so I am sending it again.
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>> Hi:
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>> The attached zip contains copies of my conf files.
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>> Their paths are as follows:
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>> /private/etc/hosts
>> /opt/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf
>> /opt/local/apache2/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
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>> Path to where I want my document root and all sites defined in the hosts and httpd-vhosts.conf to be located:
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>> /Volumes/External_Storage/www
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>> <confs.zip>
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>> Not sure why it's not working, so any help would be appreciated.
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> I did receive your message but did not immediately see what was wrong in the configuration.
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> And just to clarify what the problems are:
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>> On 12 Nov, 2010, at 02:02 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
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>>> On Nov 11, 2010, at 16:39, Ali A Samii wrote:
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>>>> I'm trying to install MacPorts MAMP on a new machine and I'm encountering a problem.
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>>>> I want to have the document root be located on an external drive.
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>>>> I have edited httpd.conf, httpd-vhosts.conf, and /etc/hosts
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>>>> When I restart apache, I get no errors.
>>>> When I go to http://localhost/ I get the standard "It Works" message.
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> And this is ok, right? This is what you would expect to see here?
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>>>> When I point my browser to a local site that I have defined in hosts and httpd-vhosts.conf, it works.
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> Ok.
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>>>> However, when I try to access http://localhost/phpinfo.php or http://localhost/phpmyadmin I get 404 Errors.
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> And you expect to see your phpinfo.php file served, and to be able to access phpmyadmin this way, yes? And the phpinfo.php file is located on disk at /Volumes/External_Storage/www/phpinfo.php, yes? Is the phpmyadmin directory also located directly in /Volumes/External_Storage/www? What does the Apache error log say when you receive the error messages in the browser?
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>>>> I defined a Virtual Host for phpmyadxmin using the same syntax so I could just type pma and the browser would point to phpmyadmin, and instead of a 404 error, I get the "It Work's" message.
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> And you instead expected to see the contents of the phpmyadmin web application, yes?
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> This phpmyadmin vhost you mentioned was not included in the files you sent so I cannot see how you set it up.
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>>>> I'm baffled.
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>>>> Can someone help me? If you need me to send you my httpd.conf, httpd-vhosts.conf, and /etc/hosts please let me know.
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