Help with phpMyadmin?

September 29, 2005 9:32 AM

Just getting started with php, web servers, html, mySQL, etc and have a question on phpMyadmin for those more experienced.

When I first setup phpMyadmin it worked fine however the next day when I naviagate to the page for phpMyadmin I get an error message that it couldn't read my config file and suggests clicking the direct link to my config.inc.php file and checking for errors, it also says that if a blank page comes up then you are fine, well a blank page DOES come up but I am obviously not fine as phpMyadmin doesn't work... I must be missing something because this makes no sense to me, I've googled and others have asked the same question but no answers have been posted, if anyone can help me out I'll be sure to post on other forums to answer this question for others.

"phpMyAdmin - Error

phpMyAdmin was unable to read your configuration file!
This might happen if PHP finds a parse error in it or PHP cannot find the file.
Please call the configuration file directly using the link below and read the PHP error message(s) that you receive. In most cases a quote or a semicolon is missing somewhere.
If you receive a blank page, everything is fine.

config.inc.php"

posted by Cosine to computers & internet (10 comments total)

I'm at a little of a loss here, since I'm not looking directly at your setup, but you may wish to see if your PHP configuration is set up to report errors or display errors.

Because if it's not displaying errors, you'll get a blank page regardless of how terrible your config.inc.php may be. Check your error logs, and your php.ini to make sure that error display is ON -- if this is a development machine and not production.
posted by Imperfect at 9:39 AM on September 29, 2005

The blank page means it was able to find the file, you would have gotten a 404 if it couldn't find it and 'Forbidden' if you had a permission error. That means you probably have an error in the config file itself. If you are new to php programming I would suggest you do a clean install of phpMyadmin.
posted by Mr T at 9:45 AM on September 29, 2005

Just a note, I'm partial to phpFlashMyAdmin more. It does everything phpMyAdmin does, but you also get a graphical table relations viewer.
posted by chota at 10:01 AM on September 29, 2005

Thanks for that chota...very nice. I hadn't heard of this...
posted by jikel_morten at 10:09 AM on September 29, 2005

Thanks. Ok, I've turned all error features ON in the php.ini but still get the same error page... any more ideas?
posted by Cosine at 10:18 AM on September 29, 2005

Replaceing the entire phpMyadmin directory didn't help any... actually i get the error even if config.inc.php doesn't exist...
posted by Cosine at 10:43 AM on September 29, 2005

but after that error I do get file not found rather than blank screen (to clarify)
posted by Cosine at 10:46 AM on September 29, 2005

Got it, reinstalled PHP. Thanks all.
posted by Cosine at 12:36 PM on September 29, 2005

So you've got PHP, (I guessing)Apache and MySql working right? It's just myadmin that's giving you trouble?

Just for the hell of it, when you get the blank page, view the source. What exactly are you seeing?
posted by miniape at 12:37 PM on September 29, 2005

Oops. Sorry, should have previewed
posted by miniape at 12:37 PM on September 29, 2005