phpmyadmin: getting blank page at localhost/phpmyadmin

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

> On Oct 29, 2017, at 7:25 AM, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 29 Oct2017, at 10:19 AM, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 29 Oct2017, at 8:52 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
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>>> 
>>> On Oct 28, 2017, at 20:04, Murray Eisenberg wrote:
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>>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> Sounds like you've configured php not to display errors in the web browser. That's a good security practice and may even be the default setting these days; you don't want an error message to reveal sensitive information about your server to a public visitor. But if you want to temporarily change that setting and display errors while working on a problem, you can edit your php.ini. Or you could have consulted whatever file you've configured php to log its errors to, or possibly your web server error log file.
>> 
>> Hmm… in php.ini (for php71, which is what’s being used AFAIK — it’s what “which php” shows) —I have:
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>> error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE
>> display_errors = On
>> display_startup_errors = On
>> 
> 
> And in config.inc.php I have:
> 
>   $cfg['Error_Handler']['display'] = true;

It’s possible some configuration variables are being overridden in a “.htaccess” file in phpmyadmin root dir.

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Brad