[Phpmyadmin-devel] suggestion on $cfgPmaAbsoluteUri

[Robin Johnson]

On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Jay F. Davis wrote:
> I was having trouble connecting to phpMyAdmin after the login page. This
> occured when I was at my client's site. The config parameter
> $cfgPmaAbsoluteUri was to blame. I fixed the problem by using
> $REMOTE_ADDR in the config file for the parameter, like this:
>
> $cfgPmaAbsoluteUri = 'http://' . $REMOTE_ADDR . '/pathTo/phpMyAdmin-
> 2.2.6-rc2/';
>
> I suspect this is what most users want, and it would have saved me some
> time figuring this out if the above method was used. So, can we change
> the config parameter so that we only ask for the path and not the server
> address?
Firstly, you probably meant $SERVER_ADDR instead of $REMOTE_ADDR, as
$REMOTE_ADDR is the address that the browser is going from.

Even if you changed that to $SERVER_ADDR, it will not always work, as
$SERVER_ADDR is an IP, and the site may be using name based vhosts.

Observe my domain for example:
http://sql.orbis-terrarum.net/mysql/
http://24.84.50.235/mysql/

> You could put a parameter such as $cfgPmaPath in the config file and then
> later set $cfgPmaAbsoluteUri by prepending $REMOTE_ADDR onto the path.
Rather than any of these solutions, look at the Documentation.html file
for the proper solution:

cfgPmaAbsoluteUri = (!empty($HTTPS) ? 'https' : 'http') . '://' .
$SERVER_NAME . (!empty($SERVER_PORT) ? ':' . SERVER_PORT : '')
. substr($SCRIPT_NAME, 0, strrpos($SCRIPT_NAME, '/')+1);


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