phpMyAdmin doesn't start - gives a session error

[SoftDux]

Hi all

This is a new installation on a VPS, and when I launch phpMyAdmin, I get the following error:

phpMyAdmin - Error

Cannot start session without errors, please check errors given in your PHP and/or webserver log file and configure your PHP installation properly.

According to php.ini the session_save_path = /tmp & /tmp is writable by everyone. I've deleted all the files from /tmp as well, but it still doesn't work. Any other suggestions?

 

[david510]

Did you try restarting cpanel? Had a check of the cpanel error logs?

 

[SoftDux]

Did you try restarting cpanel?

Yes. I've rebooted the VPS as well, same thing

Had a check of the cpanel error logs?

Yes, no clues here either. /var/log/messages doesn't give me any errors either. From what I have seen from google search results, it has todo with the session_save_path not being writable, but it is, and there's a lot of user's session files in there.

 

[cPanelDavidG]

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Yes, no clues here either. /var/log/messages doesn't give me any errors either. From what I have seen from google search results, it has todo with the session_save_path not being writable, but it is, and there's a lot of user's session files in there.

Logs relating to cpsrvd (the daemon that serves cPanel, WHM and Webmail) are typically found in /usr/local/cpanel/logs with exception of the update logs.

/var/log/messages is only for IMAP, POP3 and SpamAssassin, thus you would not find any entries there regarding the phpMyAdmin being served by cpsrvd.

 

[SoftDux]

ok, so where / how do I find out why it's causing this problem then?

 

[k3oni]

Sometimes if you login in to PHPMYADMIN, you can see the error as follows.

Cannot start session without errors, please check errors given in your PHP and/or webserver log
file and configure your PHP installation properly.

FIX:

Check permissions of /tmp. It should be 755. Change it to 1777. Now access PHPMYADMIN.

/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/etc/phpmyadmin/php.ini

Change session.save_path as /tmp and restart apache.

Have a Smile

 

[Warrenw]

Using K3oni response with slight change I solved the same problem:

view /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/etc/phpmyadmin/php.ini and see what session.save_path is already set to and make the permissions changes on that file. 1777 is not required 1755 worked as well.

Ownership of the file in the session.save_path must also be set to phpmyadmin phpmyadmin

 

[corpresa]

thank you

Thank you, k3oni and all the people that help to resolv this problema
I was a big help

 

[mitgib]

Using K3oni response with slight change I solved the same problem:

view /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/etc/phpmyadmin/php.ini and see what session.save_path is already set to and make the permissions changes on that file. 1777 is not required 1755 worked as well.

Ownership of the file in the session.save_path must also be set to phpmyadmin phpmyadmin

I had changed the session.save_path to /tmp several times on one of our servers, and upcp reverts it to /var/cpanel/userhomes/cpanelphpmyadmin/sessions, which didn't exist on this server, so a quick and easy work around I used was

mkdir -p /var/cpanel/userhomes/cpanelphpmyadmin/sessions
chmod 1777 /var/cpanel/userhomes/cpanelphpmyadmin/sessions

 

[lloyd_tennison]

Setting to 1777 did not work for me, and I also had no user phpmyadmin, but I symlinked sessions to /tmp and that seems to be working.