PhpMyAdmin “Wrong permissions on configuration fil

Question

I get this error when I try to access localhost/phpmyadmin:

Wrong permissions on configuration file, should not be world writable!

I have already chmoded every file to 555 from 777. What should I do next? I run Ubuntu 11.04.

Answer 1

If you are using ubutu and you have the path like this /opt/lampp then type the following command in terminal.

sudo pkexec chmod 755 -R /opt/lampp/phpmyadmin

Hope this will find out your solution.

Answer 2

all you need is to

1. open terminal type

   opt/lampp/lampp start

to start it and then

2. sudo chmod 755 /opt/lampp/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php

then visit in your browser

localhost/phpmyadmin

it will work fine.

Answer 3

For Mac sudo chmod 755 /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php Worked for me

Answer 4

try

sudo chmod 755 /opt/lampp/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php

this command fixed the issue having on my ubuntu 14.04.

Answer 5

This is because of wrong permission of phpMyAdmin directory and the file config.inc.php

On *nix like OS set the permission of the directory and the file as follows

chmod -R 755 /path/to/phpMyAdmin
chmod 644 /path/to/phpMyAdmin/config.inc.php

If like me you run a Linux Virtual Machine which mount a Windows folder where phpMyAdmin sources are located, edit config.inc.php and add this line

$cfg['CheckConfigurationPermissions'] = false;

Answer 6

You should not be making them 777 (which is writeable by everyone). Try 644 instead, which means user has read and write and group and others can only read.