Accidentally installed phpmyadmin as root user

Question

While trying to install phpmyadmin, I accidentally installed it as a root user.

Beginning of the story, I was editing the httpd.conf file of Apache. To avoid permission issues while running some commands, i did sudo su - on the terminal. Thereafter without exiting from root user, I installed phpmyadmin using the following commands

cd /Library/WebServer/Documents/
tar -xvf ~/Downloads/phpMyAdmin-3.5.2.2-english.tar.gz
mv phpMyAdmin-3.5.2.2-english/ phpmyadmin
cd phpmyadmin
mv config.sample.inc.php config.inc.php

But now when I try to install yii at /Library/WebServer/Documents/ , i get the following error

PHP Warning – yii\base\ErrorException

mkdir(): Permission denied

Is there any way I can remove the root user privilege from phpmyadmin without uninstalling?

Operating system: OS MAC Mavericks

Answer 1

chown with the -R flag (recursive) is probably what you want. (The following may not apply exactly to your circumstances so please consider it carefully before running).

Of course, replace {YourUsername} with your actual username. The commands below just change the owner of the files and not the group. If you need to change the group name also, the new name goes after the colon:

cd /Library/WebServer/Documents/
chown -R {YourUsername}: phpmyadmin

Answer 2

I got the solution to this problem, just simple... All works with rights on folders in Yii.

Applied the chmod command recursively across yii/ directory. The following is the command snippet for reference:

Editors-Mac:Documents cborkotoky$ chmod -R 777 yii
Editors-Mac:Documents cborkotoky$ pwd
/Library/WebServer/Documents
Editors-Mac:Documents cborkotoky$ ls -l
total 80

-rw-r--r--    1 cborkotoky  wheel   3726 Dec 11  2013 PoweredByMacOSX.gif
-rw-r--r--    1 cborkotoky  wheel  31958 Dec 11  2013 PoweredByMacOSXLarge.gif
drwxr-xr-x    5 cborkotoky  wheel    170 Feb 28 23:18 firstProject
-rw-r--r--    1 cborkotoky  wheel     44 Jun 28  2014 index.html.en
drwxrwxrwx@ 112 cborkotoky  wheel   3808 Feb 28 14:03 phpmyadmin
-rw-r--r--    1 cborkotoky  wheel     23 Feb 26 17:59 test.php
drwxrwxrwx    4 cborkotoky  wheel    136 Mar  1 02:03 yii