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JessieNBarnes
JessieNBarnes

Reputation: 53

Create web server writable folder phpMyAdmin config file

I received this problem:

Please create web server writable folder config in phpMyAdmin top level directory as described in documentation. Otherwise you will be only able to download or display it.

What can I do to solve this problem. My phpMyAdmin version is 3.5.8.2

Upvotes: 2

Views: 11587

Answers (3)

gone
gone

Reputation: 1129

A long while after the original question was asked, but I had the same problem.

On my Ubuntu 14.04 server, the file you need to make writeable is located in /var/lib/phpmyadmin. config.inc.php is owned by root:www-data, so setting group write flag fixed it: 660.

I figured this out by modifying the code in \usr\share\phpmyadmin\setup\frames\index.inc.php (line 48) where phpMyAdmin performs the check and reports the error. I made the error print the file path: 

check_config_rw($config_readable, $config_writable, $config_exists);
if (!$config_writable || !$config_readable) {
    $file_path = ConfigFile::getInstance()->getFilePath();
    messages_set(
        'error', 'config_rw', __('Cannot load or save configuration to '.$file_path),
        PMA_lang(__('Please create web server writable folder [em]config[/em] in phpMyAdmin top level directory as described in [doc@setup_script]documentation[/doc]. Otherwise you will be only able to download or display it.'))
    );
}

Upvotes: 2

Barry Chapman
Barry Chapman

Reputation: 6780

Go to your phpMyAdmin folder, typically /usr/share/phpMyAdmin for more recent versions.

Create a folder called config:

cd /usr/share/phpMyAdmin
mkdir config                        # create directory for saving
chmod o+rw config                   # give it world writable permissions - this will be removed once your configuration has been saved on the server [as this directory is required by the application to be removed as a security measure]

Once you have generated your configuration, you may copy it from the config folder /usr/share/phpMyAdmin/config.inc.php to your installation folder, or for Redhat flavors, your /etc/phpMyAdmin folder.

A little late, but its the thought that counts.

  • FYI - all this information is available in the phpMyAdmin documentation

Upvotes: 3

Marc Delisle
Marc Delisle

Reputation: 9012

It's not a big problem if you cannot create a writable folder "config" in phpMyAdmin's folder. You'll be able to download the created configuration to a file, but you must be able to put this downloaded config.inc.php back to the phpMyAdmin's folder.

Upvotes: -1

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