Install phpMyAdmin on CentOs 6

Today I was trying to install phpMyAdmin on CentOs 6 and had  interesting walkthrough of the installation

1. Get the latest copy of phpMyAdmin from sourceforge
wget -c http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/files/phpMyAdmin/3.4.9/phpMyAdmin-3.4.9-english.tar.gz  /download
2. Extract the files
tar xvfz phpMyAdmin-3.4.9-english.tar.gz
3. move the extracted files to proper location
mv phpMyAdmin-3.4.9-english.tar.gz /var/www/html/phpmyadmin
4. cd /var/www/html/phpmyadmin
5. Make a copy of configuration files
cp config.sample.inc.php config.inc.php
6. Modify the values vi config.inc.php
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type']=’cookie’; to $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type']=’http’;
7. Restart apache from any of command
service httpd restart – Work for me
/etc/init.d/httpd restart
8. Open browser on server
http://localhost/phpMyAdmin
You may end in following errors
1. 404 Not Found Error
Please make sure you push your phpMyAdmin directory in your webroot. In my case it’s /var/www/html
2. 403 Forbidden Error
I spend good amount of time finding why access is forbidden and finally did following setting
2.1 Go to /etc/httpd/conf.d/
2.2 vi phpMyAdmin.conf
2.3 Add following lines
<Directory /var/www/html/phpMyadmin>
Order allow,deny
Options Indexes
Allow from all
</Directory>
Still not able to access, try disabling the SElinux
SElinux is extra security layer in Linux and sometimes it provide conflicts for apache to work
vi /etc/selinux/config
Modify SELINUX=enforcing  to SELINUX=disabled  //Discuss with your senior. Mine is test server.
Restart your machine
hit http://localhost/phpMyAdmin prompt for username/password for mysql login :)