phpmyadmin suddently gives http error 500

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.

Hello there! I am totally new in this world but everything can be done if you are able to search in the web.

I followed the tutorial given here in DO “How To Install phpMyAdmin From Source on Debian 10”, my mistake was to copy the code

" . . . $cfg[‘blowfish_secret’] = ‘STRINGOFTHIRTYTWORANDOMCHARACTERS’; /* YOU MUST FILL IN THIS FOR COOKIE AUTH! */ . . . "

First I got an error that xml extension was needed, so I installed it. #sudo apt install php-sml

then I restarted with: #sudo systemctl reload apache2

Then I got the error 500 described in this topic, so I found when I edited the config.inc.php file that the three dots (after " IN THIS FOR COOKE AUTH! */ " were copied too. I deleted them and worked right away.

I wish could help others

Kind regards to all!

and happy coding

Thanks for you answer @alexdo , but there is nothing to see in the error.log . I checked the access log and can see I try to run /phpmyadmin.

Hello, @lcgondellesm

I will recommend to examine the web server (Apache/Nginx) error_log in order to track down what exactly is causing the issue.

You can simply execute this command and then access phpMyAdmin in order to see the logged error message:

Apache on Ubuntu:

tail -f /var/log/apache2/error.log

Apache on On Centos:

tail -f /usr/local/apache/logs/error_log

Nginx on Ubuntu:

tail -f /var/log/nginx/error.log

Feel free to share any logged messages here so we can investigate this further.

Hope that this helps! Regards, Alex