PhpMyAdmin Wrong permissions on configuration file should not be world writable

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

User · Answer

all you need is to

open terminal type

opt/lampp/lampp start

to start it and then

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

then visit in your browser

localhost/phpmyadmin

it will work fine.

User · Answer

I run my system on top of a XAMPP instalation on a OS X   A few days ago I faced the same problem  I was getting a lot of permission problems when installing and managing CMS test platforms  so I decided to set the entire htdocs subtree to a rwX permissions  and got the same error   Although my decision to set the entire subtree to those permissions is generally a mistake  that I made knowingly because this system is only accessable by localhost and otherwise unreachable  the only file that needs permission changing to solve this issue is config inc php  and you can leave the rest with the permissions you think you need   The problem is fixed with  chmod 644 config inc php  or sudo chmod 644 config inc php  depending on the system   issued inside the phpmyadmin folder

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I just solved this problem myself  and this question answer pair was not helpful to me in particular  so I will add what solved it for me in my specific case   For starters  I have just began to use a repository so I  chmod 777 -R  ed my entire  opt lampp directory to make sure that permissions were not an issue for the pushing of the repository   Then I got two errors  but I think I only saw one of them and the next one showed up after fixing the first one it   I suppose one error was upstaging the other     The first one was   lampp etc my cnf  A chmod 700 on that file fixed it in my case although  755 seems to be the better choice that I found in my research   One file down  one more to go   The other file  which is the one causing the specific error message in this question is   lampp phpmyadmin config inc php   Solution     chmod 755 -R  opt lampp phpmyadmin

User · Answer

This worked for me    pkexec chmod 755 -R  etc phpmyadmin

User · Answer

This error occured because phpmyadmin directory has all permissions  777   you can resolved this problem by executing the following command   sudo chmod 755  opt lampp phpmyadmin config inc php

User · Answer

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

User · Answer

Do the following in your terminal  sudo chmod 755  opt lampp phpmyadmin config inc php   After this you have to restart your server

User · Answer

you should change the owner of the server  by chown command  from home you can run this command  sudo chown  userName  -R       opt   If it does not work yet  run this command  sudo chmod 777 -R       opt   It should work now

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To restrict access on this file  phpmyadmin config inc php and he will work  Simple tape this   sudo chmod 750  phpmyadmin config inc php

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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

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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

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For Mac OS users   Find the file named config inc php  usually located in  Applications XAMPP xamppfiles phpmyadmin config inc php   this is the filepath on my Mac   Then click the right mouse click -  Click on Get Info  at the bottom of the box you will find permissions-  click on the Lock icon  bottom right corner  -  Put your System Admin Password -   -  where it says everyone  modify this permission to READ ONLY -  click back on the Lock icon and try to open http   localhost phpMyadmin  Hope this helps

User · Answer

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

User · Answer

try  sudo chmod 755  opt lampp phpmyadmin config inc php  this command fixed the issue having on my ubuntu 14 04

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I got the same problem as you  I fixed this problem by following this post  D  But I didn t change the permission from 777 to 755  O  http   blog elijaa org index php post 2013 02 19 Solve-Wrong-permissions-on-configuration-file 2C-should-not-be-world-writable -error-on-phpMyAdmin

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try if install lampp  sudo chown www-data www-data -R  opt lampp phpmyadmin   sudo chown www-data www-data -R  opt lampp phpmyadmin   or if install phpmyadmin  sudo chown www-data www-data -R  etc phpmyadmin   sudo chown www-data www-data -R  etc phpmyadmin

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Just in case  someone out there having same issue but changing file permission doesn t solve the issue  add this line to your config inc php file   lt  php    other config goes here         cfg  CheckConfigurationPermissions     false    And you re good to go     In my case  I m using windows 10 WSL with phpmyadmin installed on D  drive  There s no way to  for now  change file permission on local disk through WSL unless your installation directory is inside WSL filesystem it-self  There s updates according to this issue  but still on insider build   Cheers

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try this it will work  sudo chmod 755  opt lampp phpmyadmin config inc php   thanks

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