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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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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
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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

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