Blank Page When Trying to Access phpMyAdmin – Fix Guide

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I would like to access phpmyadmin. I have access it before but, now, I'm just getting a blank page and I really don't get why.

I've installed phpmyadmin using

sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin

I've run

sudo gedit /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

And there added:

#Include phpmyadmin: 
 include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf

But I was getting a warning when I restart apache, telling me:

The Alias directive in /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf at line 3 will
probably never match because it overlaps an earlier Alias.

How can I solve this, so that I can see phpmyadmin interface again, when I do http://localhost/phpmyadmin instead of seeing a blank webpage?

Dump –

I've tried apt-get remove phpmyadmin and then apt-get install phpmyadmin – still the same blank page. 🙁
/etc/phpmyadmin – I've chmod o+w permissions to phpmyadmin folder and it's contents. – still the blank page…

Best Answer

Try running

sudo dpkg-reconfigure phpmyadmin

To set up the phpmyadmin files, database connections and create the phpmyadmin databases

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Ok, I got it to work. I hope it helps someone by putting it here.

I had to change the /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/fcgid.conf to tell it to use php5-cgi (done already when I asked the question):

root@srvr-test:/etc/apache2/mods-enabled# cat fcgid.conf
<IfModule mod_fcgid.c>
  AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi .php

  FcgidConnectTimeout 20

  # Where to look for the php.ini file?
  # Maximum requests a process handles before it is terminated
  MaxRequestsPerProcess       1000
  # Maximum number of PHP processes
  MaxProcessCount             10
  # Number of seconds of idle time before a process is terminated
  IPCCommTimeout              240
  IdleTimeout                 240
  #Or use this if you use the file above
  FCGIWrapper /usr/bin/php5-cgi .php

  ServerLimit           500
  StartServers            3
  MinSpareThreads         3
  MaxSpareThreads        10
  ThreadsPerChild        10
  MaxClients            300
  MaxRequestsPerChild  1000

  PHP_Fix_Pathinfo_Enable 1
</IfModule>

Then I had to edit /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf to add +ExecCGI in the section:

root@srvr-sandbox1:/etc/phpmyadmin# cat apache.conf
# phpMyAdmin default Apache configuration

Alias /phpmyadmin /usr/share/phpmyadmin

<Directory /usr/share/phpmyadmin>
        Options FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI
        DirectoryIndex index.php
....

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