okay well now its saying Im forbidden... which is a guess a step ! hahah at least something is there

Edit: Actually, I'm guessing that you probably didn't let Aptitude auto configure phpmyadmin. To do it again:
Code:
dpkg-reconfigure phpmyadmin

-- and make sure Apache is selected (has a dot in the box -- use the space bar), then press tab to a few times to select the OK button, then press enter.


Im working on a mac via terminal... im not sure what you mean when u say i should be able to select things

Check that you have "Options FollowSymLinks" in /etc/apache2/sites-available/default, i.e. something similar to:

more /etc/apache2/sites-available/default

<Directory /var/www/>
    .
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    .
    .       
</Directory>

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

DocumentRoot /var/www
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log

# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn

CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined

Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
<Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
</Directory>

</VirtualHost>

Im not sure what that mean... but thats what it said

anyone have anymore suggestions ?

Troubleshooting permissions can be a slow process over forums.

When you run the following, are you asked any questions ?

dpkg-reconfigure -plow phpmyadmin

this is what confuses me


Package `phpmyadmin' is not installed and no info is available.
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: phpmyadmin is not installed


its saying phpmyadmin is not installed... When I log on to my server with an ftp I only see 2 folders 1) .aptitude 2).debtags
should I be downloading and uploading things to my server to get mysql to work?

Mysql is installed, see above. Packages aren't normally installed into your home directory, so don't worry about the lack of folders present (maybe grab a good book on *nix when you have time )

Did you run through hybinet's suggestions, above ? (If so, you should have had phpymadmin installed). Anyway, for whatever reason it's not present, so go ahead and install it:

apt-get update && apt-get install phpmyadmin

hey this is what comes back

Hit http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security Release.gpg
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty Release.gpg
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security Release
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty Release
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/main Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/restricted Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/main Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/restricted Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/restricted Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/restricted Sources
Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package phpmyadmin
root@li65-162:~#


I am def going to read up on this stuff but my problem now is I have a server that just shit down at 5pm. I need to put the site back up asap... thats why i was posting and trying to figure it out. I want to figure it out but is anyone interested in spending some time on this with me or alone and I will be more then happy to compensate you...

We should be nearly there.

You need to enable the Universe repository for ubuntu:

nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Use the down arrow to scroll to the bottom, and find the line that looks something like:

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty main

Add the word "universe" to the end, so that it becomes:

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty main universe

1. Press CTRL-o (the letter o) and enter, to write the file.
2. Press CTRL-x to exit.
3. Now re-run the apt-get update && apt-get install phpmyadmin command from above.

i cant thank you enough for still hanging in there to help me out...
when you code I take that and the paste it in terminal... is that correct? I just get alittle confused when u say scroll down and change stuff bc i have very few options with terminal...

also when i put in the first line of code it says this

root@li65-162:~# nano/etc/apt/sources.list
-bash: nano/etc/apt/sources.list: No such file or directory

No worries.

You need a space between "nano" and /etc/apt/sources.list. To paraphrase, "using the editor called "nano", open the file called /etc/apt/sources.list". Without the space, it's just one long, non-existant command.

Within the terminal, you should be able to scroll up and down within the file (when editing with nano) using the arrow keys on your macbook.

hey i dont see deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty main and i even do a search for it and it says its not there.... there is nothing there .[/url]

Get rid of the dot at the end of sources.list. and rerun the command.