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phpmyadmin getting HTTP 500 error

Hi! Yesterday PHPMyAdmin was working fine on my server, but today it’s getting a 500 error.

Using Apache2 and Ubuntu 18.04

Any help is appreciated! Thank you!

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tapishjain • November 24, 2020
Accepted Answer

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/phpmyadmin-suddently-gives-http-error-500

This error is resolved in the above-mentioned link.

arokiaswamyselina • November 25, 2020

Can anyone tell why is this so that the phpMyAdmin server working perfectly fine yesterday suddenly misses a semicolon in the code? Would be great to know the reason.

Bobby Iliev • November 21, 2020

Hi there @sharmanavdeep,

The error is reporting that the login.php file is not present at the /usr/share/phpmyadmin/ folder. You can check if this is indeed the case by running the following command:

  1. ls -lah /usr/share/phpmyadmin/

What I usually recommend is to install PHPmyAdmin manually rather than via apt as that way you will have full control on where and how it is installed, you would also get the latest version.

You can follow the steps on how to do that here:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-to-install-manually-phpmyadmin-on-ubuntu

Regards, Bobby

Akash Kanaujiya • November 20, 2020

Make sure that phymyadmin is properly installed, and you should also check whether Apache severing is serving phpmyadmin.

Try these commands:

sudo ln -s /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf-available/phpmyadmin.conf

sudo a2enconf phpmyadmin.conf 

sudo service apache2 reload