Question

I have problem setting up phpmyadmin on my mac. I am quite new here and I will be greatful if someone could give me a hand.

http://www.coolestguyplanettech.com/installing-phpmyadmin-on-mac-osx-10-7-lion/

I have followed tutorial from that link and everything went fine till configuration.

In Firefox I cannot open phpmyadmin setup link, it gives me big error as from image…

While in Chrome and Safari if I try to login a few times with unexisting username and password, I can access setup. But then I get different kind of errors:

Warning: Unknown: open(/var/folders/lt/8_h20skn5654p70bncx05d3h0000gn/T/sess_07ee21d2fa014a365d748382eaf8d2d6c6862893, O_RDWR) 
    failed: Permission denied (13) in Unknown on line 0

Warning: Unknown: Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that 
    the current setting of session.save_path is correct () in Unknown on line 0

In tutorial it says that I have to make “New server”. When I click there and type my password (same as one for SQL). It cannot save the server. Just redirect me back to Basic settings from authentication.

Please help I am confused…

ScreenShot of Error:

Error that I have mentioned that appear in chrome is actually when I try to login a few times with ofc unexisting username and password. Then I get access to setup with other two errors.

Other screenshots:

P.S. If you need logs I will gladly provide them, if you tell me how! Cheers.

Answer 1

Its basically saying PHP is not allowed to write to the directory that sessions are saved to.

You could do one of a few things:

Change the session save path in your php.ini

session.save_path = /tmp

If this is just a development machine you set it some where else like

session.save_path = /users/php/sessions

And then chmod 777 that directory.

See this page for more information: http://php.net/manual/en/session.configuration.php#ini.session.save-path

Otherwise you could set a new session.save_handler. This is a little bit harder so I probably wouldn’t go down that road.

These page will give you information on that though:

• http://php.net/manual/en/session.configuration.php#ini.session.save-handler
• http://php.net/manual/en/class.sessionhandler.php
• Creating custom PHP Session handler?

And finally you could just allow the PHP user to access the path its trying to.

I assume you would need to do something like:

sudo mkdir -p /var/folders/lt/8_h20skn5654p70bncx05d3h0000gn/T/
sudo chmod 777 /var/folders/lt/8_h20skn5654p70bncx05d3h0000gn/T/