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Llama

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From: St.-Petersburg, Russia

Registered: 2008-03-03

Posts: 1,379

phpmyadmin/setup: Cannot load or save configuration

Hi,

I've been following the ArchWiki;

# cd /usr/share/webapps/phpMyAdmin
# mkdir config
# chgrp http config
# chmod g+w config

got this:

$ ls -ld config
drwxrwxrwx 2 root http 4096 May 28 17:09 config

tried also this:

$ ls -ld config
drwxr-xrwx 2 root root 4096 May 28 17:23 config

Still no luck. What have I been missing?

WorMzy

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From: Scotland

Registered: 2010-06-16

Posts: 12,607

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Re: phpmyadmin/setup: Cannot load or save configuration

Hi,

I've been following the ArchWiki;

# cd /usr/share/webapps/phpMyAdmin
# mkdir config
# chgrp http config
# chmod g+w config

got this:

$ ls -ld config
drwxrwxrwx 2 root http 4096 May 28 17:09 config

Unless your umask is 000 or 020, that doesn't follow.. It's not a good idea to make a system directory world-writable in any case.

Presumably phpmyadmin has logs, what do they say after a failed attempt at running this setup script from a browser?

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ewaller

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Re: phpmyadmin/setup: Cannot load or save configuration

Are you saying that when you ran the same command 14 minutes later, the group attribute of the directory reverted from http to root?
Had you run any php stuff during that interval?

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Llama

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From: St.-Petersburg, Russia

Registered: 2008-03-03

Posts: 1,379

Re: phpmyadmin/setup: Cannot load or save configuration

Are you saying that when you ran the same command 14 minutes later, the group attribute of the directory reverted from http to root?
Had you run any php stuff during that interval?

No, I am not. I just fiddled a bit with ownership, to no avail.

Llama

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From: St.-Petersburg, Russia

Registered: 2008-03-03

Posts: 1,379

Re: phpmyadmin/setup: Cannot load or save configuration

Presumably phpmyadmin has logs, what do they say after a failed attempt at running this setup script from a browser?

It isn't yet running, I guess. It's the setup script, or so I gather.

Llama

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From: St.-Petersburg, Russia

Registered: 2008-03-03

Posts: 1,379

Re: phpmyadmin/setup: Cannot load or save configuration

Adminer is OK. Kind of solution, though [SOLVED] isn't in order, I guess.