phpmyadmin: getting blank page at localhost/phpmyadmin

[Murray Eisenberg]

Found the cause of the problem: a syntax error in config.inc.php.

I found the error by cd to /opt/local/www/phpmyadmin and then executing php index.php. That gave the syntax error message.


> On 28 Oct2017, at 6:20 PM, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Following the instructions at https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/PHP <https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/PHP>,
> I’ve completed a reinstall of phpmyadmin 4.7.4 (after getting working reinstalls of apache 2.4, mysql 5.7, and php 7.1).
> 
> I followed Step 4 (“Install phpMyAdmin), then the first Step 6 (“Configure phpMyAdmin"), and finally the _second_ (obviously mis-numbered) Step 6 (“Install pmadb”). In that last stepI did both parts, namely:
> 
>   - create the sql tables; and 
>   -  read in to mysql the file mysql_phpMyAdmin_pmaSetup.sql — with the 3 edits indicated as needed for MySQL >= 5.6.7.
> 
> I did do three things differently with config.inc.php:
> 
>   (1) I’m using $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'cookie’; 
>        and a setting for  $cfg['blowfish_secret’] 
> 
>   (2) I used a custom value for $cfg['Servers'][$i]['controlpass’] instead of 'pmapass'
> 
>   (3) I’ve uncommented all the commented cfg lines that are shown at the end of the page (e.g., $cfg['Servers'][$i]['pmadb'] = 'phpmyadmin’; ).
> 
> Nonetheless, if I try to browse to http://localhost/phpmyadmin <http://localhost/phpmyadmin> …
>  
>    ** I just see a blank page.
> 
> (The same thing happens, of course, if for the URL I use a virtual host ServerName that I configured in the apache httpd-vhosts.conf file.)
> 
> Yes, apache’s httpd.conf includes both...
> 
>     <IfModule dir_module>
>          DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
>     </IfModule> 
> 
> .. and: 
> 
>      LoadModule dir_module lib/apache2/modules/mod_dir.so
> 
> Any ideas how to fix this?
> —
> Murray Eisenberg			murrayeisenberg at gmail.com <mailto:murrayeisenberg at gmail.com>
> 503 King Farm Blvd #101	Home (240)-246-7240
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> 
> 

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Murray Eisenberg			murrayeisenberg at gmail.com
503 King Farm Blvd #101	Home (240)-246-7240
Rockville, MD 20850-6667	Mobile (413)-427-5334


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