phpMyAdmin installation problem on Fedora 8

[Donald Reader]

On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 19:04 +0000, Chris G wrote:
> I'm trying to install and run phpMyAdmin (2.11.5) on Fedora 8.
> 
> It's installed OK but when I try and run it I'm asked for a username
> and password by Apache (i.e. it's an Apache security thing) as
> follows:-
> 
>     Enter username and password for "phpMyAdmin localhost" at
>     http://home.isbd.net
> 
> ... but according to the phpMyAdmin.conf file installed in
> /etc/httpd/conf.d I shouldn't have to enter a password surely.
> 
> 
> What's making Apache ask for a password?
> 
> -- 
> Chris Green
> 
you can root and if you have already set roots password
in mysql use it otherwise just leave it blank as the default
for mysql does not have a password.

Hope that helps
Donald Reader