phpMyAdmin - apache configuration issue

[william drescher]

On 1/24/2016 8:46 AM, Karl Auer wrote:
> On Sun, 2016-01-24 at 07:28 -0500, william drescher wrote:
>> I updated/upgraded my 14.04LTS server and the url:
>> http://192.168.0.200/phpmyadmin
>> no longer works.  Error message is 404.
>
> 404 tells you that a lot of stuff is actually working. There is a server
> listening, a server that is capable of looking for a page and prepared
> to serve it to you.
>
> Is it possible that something has disabled phpmyadmin? If you have a
> standard Apache2 install, check
> that /etc/apache2/conf-available/phpmyadmin.conf (or similar) exists and
> that you have a symbolic link to it from /etc/apache2/conf-enabled. If
> you already have that link, restart Apache. If you need to make the link
> anew, restart Apache afterwards.

/etc/apache2/conf-available does not have phpmyadmin.conf but 
there is a phpmyadmin.conf in /etc/dbconfig-common
>
> Also, read the Apache2 phpmyadmin config file. Look in the locations
> mentioned in the configuration to make sure that the configuration
> matches reality.
>
> The install scripts for most applications try not to disturb existing
> configurations, and a basic "apt-get remove" will not remove
> configuration files. Use "apt-get purge phpmyadmin && apt-get install
> phpmyadmin" instead.

purging, installing did not put the phpmyadmin.conf in conf-available

bill