PHP55 Upgrade , PHPMyAdmin No Longer Works

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Aug 21, 2014, at 9:25 AM, Jasper Frumau <jasperfrumau at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I have had a Macports LAMP running for a year now or so and just upgraded to php 5.5. port to do some more development on my MBP. So I added the openssl port as well as the necessary php55 ports (got some help from http://blog.kicaj.com/installing-and-configuring-php-5-5-using-macports/ ) :
> 
> 7541  sudo port install php55
>  7547  sudo port select php php55
>  7557  port search php | grep apache
>  7571  sudo port install php55-apache2handler
>  7592  sudo port install php5-openssl
>  7593  sudo port install php55-openssl
>  7605  sudo port search mbstring
>  7606  sudo port install php55-mbstring
>  7608  sudo port install php55-mysqli
>  7609  sudo port search mysqli
>  7610  sudo port install php55-mysql

You should be able to bypass much of that (i.e. have it done for you automatically) by just running:

sudo port install phpmyadmin +php55


On Aug 21, 2014, at 10:44 AM, Jasper Frumau <jasperfrumau at gmail.com> wrote:

> Reloading the page / phpmyadmin on Firefox I saw "You should upgrade to MySQL 5.5.0 or later." So I
> 
> The mysql55 client has been installed.
> To install the mysql55 server, install the mysql55-server port.
> --->  Activating mysql55 @5.5.38_0

[snip]

> But I still have the same error. I do not think I need to install the mysql server do I? Well I did it anyways, but still #2002 Cannot log in to the MySQL server

My understanding is that this message does mean that the MySQL server you're connecting to must run MySQL version 5.5 or later. See also https://trac.macports.org/ticket/43993