Topic: How to keep phpAdmin private

[Mark]

I want to load the phpMyAdmin app on the SME 5.6 server, and limit access to it to just myself and one other person.

The web site works fine. Installing phpAdmin was a breeze and worked fine. But I am not searching on the right keywords and lack some insight on how to engage authorization of users requesting the page.

Can some point me to a description of what I need to do to set this up?

TIA ,

 - Mark

[Mark]

Well, further searching revealed some terms that lead to helpful messages, I am happy to report. Here is one:
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=8253.msg30811#msg30811

Reading about htaccess and server config file directives gives rise to a couple of questions.

htaccess files sound like the way to go. Yet, on the Apache site a doc suggests restrictions are best made in a section in the main server configuration file. See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/htaccess.html

So, does anyone care to offer an opinion of which is the better way to go for SME 5.6?

[Chris Parker]

could you put it in an ibay and put a pw on that? it would be the easiest thing to do

[Mark]

Chris Parker wrote:
"could you put it in an ibay and put a pw on that? it would be the easiest thing to do"

Yup. Good idea. I did that and it seems to work just fine. I guess I just forgot about the ibays until I saw your note.

Thanks.