> On Oct 29, 2017, at 7:25 AM, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenb...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On 29 Oct2017, at 10:19 AM, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenb...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> On 29 Oct2017, at 8:52 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Oct 28, 2017, at 20:04, Murray Eisenberg wrote: >>> >>>> 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: >> >> 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. — Brad