Re: phpmyadmin: getting blank page at localhost/phpmyadmin

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

> On Oct 29, 2017, at 7:25 AM, Murray Eisenberg  
> wrote:
> 
> On 29 Oct2017, at 10:19 AM, Murray Eisenberg  
> wrote:
>> 
>> On 29 Oct2017, at 8:52 AM, Ryan Schmidt  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

Re: MacPorts shell mode

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

> On Oct 18, 2017, at 5:31 PM, pagani laurent via macports-users 
>  wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Reading the mails on this list, I discovered the Shell mode option (sudo port 
> without argument) which would allow in principle to launch several commands 
> without repeating sudo port each time (and typing the passwd). But once in 
> that mode, I typed selfupdate and was exited from the the mode after 
> completion! Could not run upgrade outdated in the wake… In that case, what’s 
> the use of such a shell mode ?

Selfupdate updates port itself (base). Probably makes sense to exit current 
running port after such an update. Could it recognize it was in shell mode 
spawn new port command? I don’t know.

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Brad