Today when I started up phpMyAdmin (version 2.10.0.2) by going to http://localhost/phpMyAdmin I saw this error screen.
phpMyAdmin – Error |
I googled around but could not find any solutions.
So I went and tried to install the latest version of phpMyAdmin, 2.11.5. When I tried to run setup I saw this error screen.
phpMyAdmin – Error |
| Cannot start session without errors, please check errors given in your PHP and/or webserver log file and configure your PHP installation properly. |
Now that I had an error message to work with I googled around and found this post, Xampp phpMyAdmin Problem, which helped me diagnose the problem.
It turns out during one of my cleaning sessions I wiped out the session directory in, “C:\DOCUME~1\fkim\LOCALS~1\Temp\php\session.” After restoring it I ran into my next problem.
phpMyAdmin – Error |
Cannot load mysql extension. Please check your PHP configuration. – Documentation |
I upgraded to PHP 5.2.5 from 5.2.1 but that did not help. I installed the mbstring module but that did not help.
Finally I added the PHP extension directory to the path (I had already added the PHP directory to the path) and it finally worked! My path now includes the following two directories, E:\Program Files\PHP and E:\Program Files\PHP\ext.