Help Installing phpMyAdmin on Linux Server

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I constantly get this error when attempting to view index.php in the phpMyAdmin folder I have setup:

Cannot start session without errors, please check errors given in your PHP and/or webserver log file and configure your PHP installation properly.

I am using subversion with three co-workers and I am trying to install this on my repository, which is at /svni3/myusername/intranet/ on our linux development server. I do have shell access so I would be able to install it somewhere else if that may be causing the problem.

My config.inc.php file looks like this (only the things I changed):

$cfg['blowfish_secret'] = 'blah';

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'cookie';

//$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'username';

//$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = 'password';

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'localhost';

Other helpful information???

When I ping localhost it works. When I run the command "ls -l /var/lib/php":

drwxrwx--- 2 root apache 4096 2009-04-17 02:31 session

If there's anything else that may be helpful let me know; this has been plaguing me for a few hours now.

I'm also open to suggestions on some apps that I can try out for SQL querying. I've tried SQLyog which I happen to like. MySQL Workbench doesn't seem to be doing what I'd like it to do. Anything else I may be able to get easily? — Joe Majewski

Emil Vikström Emil Vikström · Accepted Answer · 2010-05-18T19:38:03

Check your error log. If you're running Apache on a Debian system the log is probably in /var/log/apache2/ The path is probably similar on other distributions.

Which user and group is your web server running as?

Help Installing phpMyAdmin on Linux Server

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