I've run into some trouble after upgrading a working phpMyAdmin installation, and would appreciate some pointers on how to troubleshoot it.

Running FC2 with nightly yum updates, Apache 2.0.51, PHP 4.3.8 and MySQL 3.23.58.

I've just upgraded my phpMyAdmin installation to the latest 2.60.0-pl2 version, to avoid a security problem with the 2.57.something I was running. Now I've got a problem. While I can log in and see most of the top-level forms showing databases and tables, when I drill into table structures or browses, I end up with nearly blank forms: the frames are there, the left frame of navigation and the breadcrumb trail ("Server: myserver.com > Database: test > Table: item) but nothing else appears in the right frame. Normally, I would expect to see a browse form and some controls for changing the table structure or field values.

I am seeing the behavior on Mac OS X 10.3.5 client with Safari or Camino, as well as Win XP Pro client with FireFox or IE, so it doesn't seem browser-specific. The "breadcrumb trail" in the right pane is wrapped inside <table> ...</table> tags, and there's no further HTML or </html> in the frame, so I suspect the routine is terminating abnormally. I'm just not sure how to troubleshoot from there.

I had tried to turn PHP safemode on, but have reset it to off (and restarted httpd a few dozen times). No change

I've changed all the php scripts to chown -R apache.apache as part of the attempt to get safe mode working. No change.

The user I am logging in as has full rights across the database. I'm using the http authentication mode built into phpMyAdmin. The 'controluser' has very limited rights to the database as described in the install instructions. I've diffed the config.inc.php against the stock one supplied and have only the minimal changes specifed in the install document.

I've reviewed the install instructions at http://www.phpmyadmin.net and posted a message to the phpMyAdmin forum on SourceForge (https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php? thread_id=1163606&forum_id=72909) without getting a useful response yet.

If anyone is familiar with phpMyAdmin specifically, or has some ideas for troubleshooting this problem in general, I'd welcome suggestions.

Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
http://www.tedroche.com

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