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: phpmyadmin: getting blank page at localhost/phpmyadmin

[Murray Eisenberg]

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;
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503 King Farm Blvd #101 Home (240)-246-7240
Rockville, MD 20850-6667Mobile (413)-427-5334

Re: phpmyadmin: getting blank page at localhost/phpmyadmin

[Murray Eisenberg]

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


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Murray Eisenbergmurrayeisenb...@gmail.com
503 King Farm Blvd #101 Home (240)-246-7240
Rockville, MD 20850-6667Mobile (413)-427-5334

Re: phpmyadmin: getting blank page at localhost/phpmyadmin

[Ryan Schmidt]

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.