On Aug 20, 2007, at 9:58 PM, Freddy Freeloader wrote:
Sorry to be so long getting back to you, but I had already tried this 
and you're not going to believe the results....
There is a phpinfo.php file in /usr/share/phpmyadmin.  It doesn't 
work.  However, I took the php script I used earlier to connect to 
mysql, added the phpinfo() function to the bottom of the page, copied 
it to /usr/share/phpmyadmin and Apache served the page.  It both 
connected to mysql and served up the php configuration.  It has the 
same permissions that all other files have in that directory....
Now, I'm not highly experienced with Apache, but know enough to set 
it up and get it working in most situations, but this just plain old 
has me buffaloed....  That Apache will not serve up any of the 
phpmyadmin php pages but will serve up other php pages located in the 
same directory just seems plain old bizarre to me.
I'm sorry if this seems redundant but you're /sure/ all the files have 
the same user and permissions? If that's the case the only thing I can 
think of is to try downloading a fresh copy and installing that. That 
seems strange to me too.