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Asked: 2011-08-27 05:09:32 +0800 CST

Blank page when trying to access phpmyadmin

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I would like to access phpmyadmin. I have access it before but, now, I'm just getting a blank page and I really don't get why.

I've installed phpmyadmin using 

sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin

I've run

sudo gedit /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

And there added:

#Include phpmyadmin: 
 include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf

But I was getting a warning when I restart apache, telling me:

The Alias directive in /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf at line 3 will probably never match because it overlaps an earlier Alias.

How can I solve this, so that I can see phpmyadmin interface again, when I do http://localhost/phpmyadmin instead of seeing a blank webpage?

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  • I've tried apt-get remove phpmyadmin and then apt-get install phpmyadmin - still the same blank page. :(

  • /etc/phpmyadmin - I've chmod o+w permissions to phpmyadmin folder and it's contents. - still the blank page...

apache2

7 Answers

  1. All the previous answers did not help me, but then I found the solution:

    apt install php-gettext

    this fixed phpmyadmin white blank page issue.

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  2. Best Answer

    Try running

    sudo dpkg-reconfigure phpmyadmin

    To set up the phpmyadmin files, database connections and create the phpmyadmin databases

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  3. This problem occurred to me because I modified the php.ini (/etc/php5/apache/php.ini) and introduced a wrong format. Specifically, I needed to upload a bigger file so I modified this line:

    upload_max_filesize = 2M

    with:

    upload_max_filesize = 20

    As you can see, I missed an M. After restarting apache (sudo service apache2 restart), I was getting the blank page.

    ** In general, it might be that a mistake in the php.ini produces a silent (blank page) output in php. **

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  4. An old question I know, but I recently had the same problem. Accessing the phpmyadmin url produced a blank white page. The apache logs showed nothing wrong. All response headers were "200 OK".

    The problem was simple, I had disabled javascript in the browser.

    To fix in firefox, enter the url 'about:config', find the key named 'javascript.enabled' and toggle it true.

    In chrome, navigate to Setting > Advanced Settings > Content Settings, scroll down to the Javascript header and toggle the 'Enable javascript' checkbox.

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  5. When i changed this inside the config.inc.php:

    $cfg['UploadDir'] = '/tmp'; $cfg['SaveDir'] = '/tmp';

    to:

    $cfg['UploadDir'] = ''; $cfg['SaveDir'] = '';

    and reloaded the page then it worked directly!

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  6. My problem was different: the page rendered white but, inspecting the HTML, I could see the login and password fields. The problem was in the space on the HDD:

    No space left on device

    Freeing some made phpMyAdmin work again.

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  7. I`m not sure if is the same in ubuntu, but for debian 7.0.0 i find a way and my problem was fixed with this :

    apt-get install php5-json

    I informed from this link :

    https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=710861;msg=7

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