DigitalOcean Kubernetes: new control plane is faster and free, enable HA for 99.95% uptime SLA

Question

phpMyAdmin installation on CentOS 6.5 allows log in, but returns a blank page.

  • Posted July 21, 2014

I’ve managed to install phpMyAdmin after massive effort, and I can get a log in prompt when I access <ipaddress>/phpmyadmin/

I followed this tutorial on how to install phpmyadmin on CentOS 6.4 (I’m using 6.5).

After I log in, however, it gave me first a 2 panel page with a Forbidden. You do not have access to phpmyadmin/navigation.php and Forbidden. You do not have access to phpmyadmin/main.php Now it’s just showing a blank page - but the favicon shows at the top.

I’m using Chrome browser to access in case that’s relevant. I have restarted httpd each time.

I can access phpmyadmin/Documentation.html OK but no PHP files it seems. I’ve tried changing permissions on the /usr/share/phpMyAdmin/ and its content, but that does nothing (they’re now back at 644 and all owned by root).

*BTW friends, double- & triple- check your IP address if you’re changing the config file to limit access. The 3 IP address checkers each gave me a different one - the last one finally worked. * This seems much more painful that it should be! What am I missing? (I promise to let you know what works as well - drives me nuts to see posts saying ‘it’s fixed now’ without saying how!!)

Thanks in advance.

Subscribe
Share
Submit an answer
You can type!ref in this text area to quickly search our full set of tutorials, documentation & marketplace offerings and insert the link!

These answers are provided by our Community. If you find them useful, show some love by clicking the heart. If you run into issues leave a comment, or add your own answer to help others.

admin741682 • July 22, 2014

Still getting a blank page. Things I have tried so far:

  • set the server time to the correct timezone and time (no effect, except now have correct time)
  • checked that I’m not missing any symlinks (php config seems to be working OK)
  • checked permissions (644) user (apache) and group (apache)
  • checked log and access files for apache (just says that the page was requested) - I set LogLevel in httpd.conf to ‘debug’

Is it possible it’s something to do with SELinux?

admin741682 • July 22, 2014

Hi Kamal, Thanks for your response. Output of log file from last two reboots below. I can’t see anything wrong here - and I think Apache error verbosity is at its highest.

Any other suggestions?

Justin

sudo tail /var/log/httpd/error_log [Mon Jul 21 10:13:21 2014] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down [Mon Jul 21 10:13:22 2014] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec) [Mon Jul 21 10:13:22 2014] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication … [Mon Jul 21 10:13:22 2014] [notice] Digest: done [Mon Jul 21 10:13:22 2014] [notice] Apache/2.2.15 (Unix) DAV/2 PHP/5.5.14 mod_ssl/2.2.15 OpenSSL/1.0.1e-fips configured – resuming normal operations [Mon Jul 21 20:48:39 2014] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down [Mon Jul 21 20:48:40 2014] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec) [Mon Jul 21 20:48:40 2014] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication … [Mon Jul 21 20:48:40 2014] [notice] Digest: done [Mon Jul 21 20:48:40 2014] [notice] Apache/2.2.15 (Unix) DAV/2 PHP/5.5.14 mod_ssl/2.2.15 OpenSSL/1.0.1e-fips configured – resuming normal operations

Kamal Nasser • July 21, 2014

It looks like there’s a php error, which usually results in a white page. Check Apache’s error log, are there any errors?

sudo tail /var/log/httpd/error_log