[SOLVED] Xampp phpmyadmin

Omer aslam · 08-09-2012, 08:08 AM

I installed Xampp. when i open http://localhost/phpmyadmin/ it gives this error.

Access forbidden!

You don't have permission to access the requested directory. There is either no index document or the directory is read-protected.

If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
Error 403
localhost
Apache/2.4.2 (Unix) OpenSSL/1.0.1c PHP/5.4.4

kindly tell me what to do..............?

bathory · 08-09-2012, 01:17 PM

Hi,

You maybe need to just add index.php in the "DirectoryIndex" option in apache configuration file (httpd-xampp.conf) and restart apache.
Or else show us the output of the following commands:

Code:

ls -l /opt/lampp/htdocs
ls -l /opt/lampp/htdocs/phpmyadmin

I guess /opt/lampp/htdocs is the DocumentRoot for xampp. If not, change the path above accordingly.

Regards

Omer aslam · 08-09-2012, 03:31 PM

thanks for your reply...this is the output i got.

comsats@ubuntu:~$ ls -l /opt/lampp/htdocs
total 48
-rw-rw-rw- 1 comsats root 30894 May 11 2007 favicon.ico
-rw-rw-rw- 1 comsats root 256 Feb 5 2009 index.php
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 8 08:02 Job_Form
drwxrwxrwx 2 comsats root 4096 Aug 9 14:43 webalizer
drwxrwxrwx 7 comsats root 4096 Mar 15 07:02 xampp
comsats@ubuntu:~$ ls -l /opt/lampp/htdocs/phpmyadmin
ls: cannot access /opt/lampp/htdocs/phpmyadmin: No such file or directory

now tell me in detail what to do......i don't know much about apache,etc....

lithos · 08-09-2012, 04:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Omer aslam

thanks for your reply...this is the output i got.

Code:

comsats@ubuntu:~$ ls -l /opt/lampp/htdocs
total 48
-rw-rw-rw- 1 comsats root 30894 May 11  2007 favicon.ico
-rw-rw-rw- 1 comsats root   256 Feb  5  2009 index.php
drwxr-xr-x 2 root    root  4096 Aug  8 08:02 Job_Form
drwxrwxrwx 2 comsats root  4096 Aug  9 14:43 webalizer
drwxrwxrwx 7 comsats root  4096 Mar 15 07:02 xampp
comsats@ubuntu:~$ ls -l /opt/lampp/htdocs/phpmyadmin
ls: cannot access /opt/lampp/htdocs/phpmyadmin: No such file or directory

now tell me in detail what to do......i don't know much about apache,etc....

It's because you probably didn't extract the archive to "/opt" directory but in your "xampp"
so it's probably there

please post the output of

Code:

$ ls -l xampp

and use the # icon in your post to wrap the output in code format [code]the text[/code] (take a look here for some examples)

Omer aslam · 08-09-2012, 04:15 PM

i extracted the archieve in /opt

---------- Post added 08-09-12 at 05:16 PM ----------

here is the output

Code:

comsats@ubuntu:~$ ls -l xampp
ls: cannot access xampp: No such file or directory

bathory · 08-09-2012, 04:40 PM

Quote:

comsats@ubuntu:~$ ls -l xampp
ls: cannot access xampp: No such file or directory

It should be

Code:

ls -l /opt/lampp

Omer aslam · 08-09-2012, 06:02 PM

it gives this output.

Code:

total 168
drwxrwxrwx  2 comsats root 12288 Jul 13 04:18 bin
drwxrwxrwx  2 comsats root  4096 Jul 14  2004 cgi-bin
drwxrwxrwx  3 comsats root  4096 Mar 15 07:15 error
drwxrwxrwx  8 comsats root  4096 Jul  9 05:23 etc
drwxrwxrwx  5 comsats root  4096 Aug  9 05:53 htdocs
drwxrwxrwx  3 comsats root  4096 May 30  2003 icons
-rwxrwxrwx  1 comsats root 15325 Jun 15 10:39 lampp
drwxrwxrwx 15 comsats root 12288 Jul 13 04:17 lib
drwxrwxrwx  2 comsats root  4096 Apr 26  2006 libexec
drwxrwxrwx 36 comsats root  4096 Aug 24  2009 licenses
drwxrwxrwx  2 comsats root  4096 Aug  9 18:24 logs
drwxrwxrwx  2 comsats root  4096 Jul 13 04:17 modules
drwxrwxrwx  3 comsats root  4096 Mar 13 11:34 php
drwxrwxrwx  8 comsats root  4096 Jul  9 05:16 phpmyadmin
-rw-rw-rw-  1 comsats root 66934 Jul 10 05:53 RELEASENOTES
drwxrwxrwx  2 comsats root  4096 Jul 13 04:18 sbin
drwxrwxrwx 39 comsats root  4096 Jul  5 15:20 share
drwxrwxrwx  3 comsats root  4096 Jan 18  2005 tmp
drwxrwxrwx  6 comsats root  4096 Aug  9 18:24 var

now what next?

frankbell · 08-09-2012, 09:12 PM

Start Xampp and test it.

The Xampp website has a better description of how to do this than I could write:

http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html#378

Omer aslam · 08-10-2012, 08:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by frankbell

Start Xampp and test it.

The Xampp website has a better description of how to do this than I could write:

http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html#378

phpmyadmin not working or in status mysql database also shown deactivated....

Omer aslam · 08-10-2012, 08:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by frankbell

Start Xampp and test it.

The Xampp website has a better description of how to do this than I could write:

http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html#378

i followed the security instructions on http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html#378 now error of localhost/phpmyadmin has been changed to this

Code:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function __() in /opt/lampp/phpmyadmin/libraries/Config.class.php on line 755

now tell me what should i do next....?

bathory · 08-10-2012, 03:48 PM

Quote:

i followed the security instructions on http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html#378 now error of localhost/phpmyadmin has been changed to this

Fatal error: Call to undefined function __() in /opt/lampp/phpmyadmin/libraries/Config.class.php on line 755

now tell me what should i do next....?

Read this

Omer aslam · 08-10-2012, 04:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bathory

Read this

still not solved now it gives this.....

Code:

Existing configuration file (./config.inc.php) is not readable.

bathory · 08-10-2012, 05:10 PM

Quote:

Existing configuration file (./config.inc.php) is not readable.

The file should be readable by the apache user. In a default installation this user is nobody, so run

Code:

chown nobody /opt/lampp/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php

frankbell · 08-10-2012, 07:27 PM

The nice thing about Xampp is that, if something goes wrong or one misunderstands the directions or just hits the wrong key, one can simply delete /opt/lampp (after backing up any files in /opt/lampp/htdocs that need backed up) and try again.

That's one reason it's such a nice tool for testing.

Omer aslam · 08-10-2012, 07:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bathory

The file should be readable by the apache user. In a default installation this user is nobody, so run

Code:

chown nobody /opt/lampp/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php

Now it gives this screen.....