ubuntu 12.04上phpmyadmin的403错误

Question

I installed phpmyadmin on ubuntu 12.04 using the command "sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin". So, phpmyadmin is on the directory /usr/share/phpmyadmin. Then I created a link under /etc/www/ using the command "sudo ln -s /usr/share/phpmyadmin". But when I visited phpmyadmin using browser, I got the error meesage "Forbidden.You don't have permission to access /phpmyadmin on this server." I searched a lot on the Internet to find a solution. One solution is to add those following codes in the httpd.conf file(my httpd.conf file is empty.).
<Directory “/usr/share/phpmyadmin/”>
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
Howerver, it didn't work! Is there any one who can tell me where the problem is. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

First try to add

Options FollowSymLinks

before

AllowOverride None

Also here is a tip:

If you created a symbolic link with a root user in example, then you might get that error because original resource is maybe somebody's else but link is owned by root. This usually happens on C-Panel hostings of course. I'm not sure it will happen under Ubuntu.