Took me many hours to find that answer :D

Johnboy – THANK YOU for the >v5.2x update!!!!!!!! I have been searching for hours on why my login to phpmyadmin wasn’t working after following these instructions (server error 500 or #202 server isn’t responding). Commenting the ::1 as you stated solved the problem.

My setup is:
Windows server 2008
phpMyAdmin-3.3.0
php-5.3.1
mysql-essential-5.1.44

DaveW

php 5.2 does not display this issue.

hope this helps others

Found the answer over on the MySQL forum. Seems this is a quirk in Windows – In the config.inc.php file you need to change
$cfg[$i]['host'] = ‘localhost’;
to
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = ‘127.0.0.1′;

For some reason they are not recognized by Windows 7 as being the same. (it runs fine without the change on my XP machine)

I have downloaded phpMyAdmin-2.11.10-english.zip and extracted all the contents.
When I reached step:

5. Now go into your php directory and find php.ini — we have to make a few changes:

Find session.save_path and set it to the same as you used in step 4 which in our case is C:\temp\phpsessions and save the file.

* The problem is that I could not find “php.ini” in the extracted php directory.
Is this because of phpmyadmin version issue?

Thanks you.

http://www.gizmobeach.com/downloads/phpmyadminconfigerrors.jpg

Thanks.

I have a screenshot of my page here: http://www.gizmobeach.com/downloads/phpmyadminerrors.jpg

Any ideas?

Thanks.

by the way in step 4 adding full rights to IUSR, IIS_IUSRS and Network Service
right click on the folder select properties/ security / edit and add. Simply add the users and select full control. Any way thats how I didi it.. but I still havent got it working so im no expert.

Also restart IIS after changing php.ini.

Thanks for the tute anyway Ill try again later.

I then had the “Connection for controluser as defined in your configuration failed” which as described above changed the controluser = ‘root’ and controlpass = ‘[mysqlpassword]‘ this fixed the problem.

Now I just get the $cfg not OK [Documentation] errors, but these should affect the functionality too much.

Thanks again

Richard

HTTP Error 403.14 – Forbidden
The Web server is configured to not list the contents of this directory

Now it gives a possible workaround in the error, simply enable directory browsing in IIS under Default Web Site and hey presto all you then do is goto http://localhost/phpmyadmin and click on the phpmyadmin-3.2 folder listed. That then brings up the login page.

But how do I fix this to go straight to the login page when entering http://localhost/phpmyadmin , as shown above in the tutorial?

Thanks in advance

Richard

Thanks so mucn for these tutorials. They’re fanstastic.

I followed your lessons for installing PHP for IIS 7 on Windows 2008 and I just did the one for phpMyAdmin. I ran PHP installer per your instructions, including the extentions (and PHP is running fine) but I still don’t see the following extensions in my php.ini file at all:

extension=php_mysql
extension=php_gd2.dll
extension=php_mbstring.dll

And of course, when I try to run phpMyAdmin, I’m getting the error:

“Cannot load mysql extension. Please check your PHP configuration. – Documentation”

What I do have at the bottom of my php.ini file is:

; Local Variables:
; tab-width: 4
; End:
[PHP_MSSQL]
extension=php_mssql.dll

Can you suggest what I might’ve done wrong?

Thanks so much in advance.
Russ

Just a quick one relating to the second post…
Chris Perry Says:
October 9th, 2008 at 4:43 am

Fixed it. Just had to change ‘controluser’ from “PMA” to “root”

Could you tell me where this is changed please as I have the same issue.

Much appriciated

Paul

Server Error in Application “Default Web Site/phpmyadmin”
HTTP Error 404.4 – Not Found

Description: The resource you are looking for does not have a handler associated with it.

Error Code: 0×80070002

Notification: MapRequestHandler

Module: IIS Web Core

Requested URL: http://localhost:80/phpmyadmin/

Physical Path: C:\inetpub\wwwroot\phpmyadmin\

Logon User: Anonymous

Logon Method: Anonymous

Handler: Not yet determined

Most likely causes:

* The file extension for the requested URL does not have a handler configured to process the request on the Web server.

What you can try:

* If the file extension does not have a handler associated with it, add a handler mapping for the extension.
* Verify that the handler associated with the file extension is properly installed and configured.
* Create a tracing rule to track failed requests for this HTTP status code. For more information about creating a tracing rule for failed requests, click here.

When I click the here link, I get this:
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pmadb'] … OK
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['relation'] … not OK [ Documentation ]
General relation features: Disabled

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_info'] … not OK [ Documentation ]
Display Features: Disabled

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_coords'] … not OK [ Documentation ]
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pdf_pages'] … not OK [ Documentation ]
Creation of PDFs: Disabled

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['column_info'] … not OK [ Documentation ]
Displaying Column Comments: Disabled
Bookmarked SQL query: Disabled
Browser transformation: Disabled

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['history'] … not OK [ Documentation ]
SQL history: Disabled

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['designer_coords'] … not OK [ Documentation ]
Designer: Disabled

#0 PMA_sendHeaderLocation(http://localhost/phpmyadmin/index.php?token=a15158e53ee2b40dfebaaf27cf3a99ff) called at [G:\inetpub\wwwroot\phpmyadmin\libraries\auth\cookie.auth.lib.php:628]
#1 PMA_auth_set_user() called at [G:\inetpub\wwwroot\phpmyadmin\libraries\common.inc.php:829]
#2 require_once(G:\inetpub\wwwroot\phpmyadmin\libraries\common.inc.php) called at [G:\inetpub\wwwroot\phpmyadmin\index.php:35]

Im new to IIS so its probably simple but buggered if i know what it is.

thanks Rich

Cannot load mcrypt extension. Please check your PHP configuration.
I’ve added the code in the php.ini file as advised and the dll is in the ext folder.

The mbstring PHP extension was not found and you seem to be using a multibyte charset. Without the mbstring extension phpMyAdmin is unable to split strings correctly and it may result in unexpected results.
I’ve added the code in the php.ini file as advised and the dll is in the ext folder.

The configuration file now needs a secret passphrase (blowfish_secret).
I’ve done this and made sure it was not commented out.

Your PHP MySQL library version 5.0.51a differs from your MySQL server version 5.1.39. This may cause unpredictable behavior.
Is this the libmysql.dll?

And then there’s this….

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pmadb'] … not OK [ Documentation ]
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['relation'] … not OK [ Documentation ]
General relation features: Disabled

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_info'] … not OK [ Documentation ]
Display Features: Disabled

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_coords'] … not OK [ Documentation ]
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pdf_pages'] … not OK [ Documentation ]
Creation of PDFs: Disabled

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['column_info'] … not OK [ Documentation ]
Displaying Column Comments: Disabled
Bookmarked SQL query: Disabled
Browser transformation: Disabled

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['history'] … not OK [ Documentation ]
SQL history: Disabled

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['designer_coords'] … not OK [ Documentation ]
Designer: Disabled

Help with any or all of these errors is greatly appreciated
Thanks
Bob

Cannot start session without errors, please check errors given in your PHP and/or webserver log file and configure your PHP installation properly.

Does someone know how to fix this?

Great articles by the way!!