Eric’s Story Book

Well it took me a couple of days to figure out what I was doing wrong. Well Vince W. over at URBAN PUDDLE posted this tutorial about installing Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu Edgy (6.10) with Lighty (lighttpd), and MySQL. In the tutorial there was a linking to his lighttpd.conf file that had the host settings for phpmyadmin pointing to php.example.net just for an example site and every time I tried accessing my phpmyadmin on the localhost. I would get an option on my browser wanting me to download index.php instead of opening it in the browser window. “You have chosen to open” was the message i was getting. I knew it wasn’t an issue with my browser more of my lighttpd config and I started tweaking Vince’s config on his site and this is what I ended up with lighttpd.conf. I am fastly becoming a lighttpd lover and with a bit more work with the config files I am sure I will have it mastered. I should clean up that config file more in the next couple of days to make it look better and not have so many comments. But once you load it and input http://localhost/phpmyadmin/ in your URL bar and it should work. I tried adding the index.php to the link but for some reason I still get the “You have chose to open” when going directly to the file.