• PhpMyAdmin problems after upgrading to Ubuntu Feisty

    May 28th, 2007

    Just a quick post about a problem I had a few days ago.

    I noticed after upgrading to Ubuntu Feisty from Ubuntu Edgy the last time, PhpMyAdmin didn’t work anymore. I got the following error:

    #1045 - Access denied for user: 'www-data@localhost' (Using password: YES)

    I searched around on the internet but couldn’t find a solution. Logging in via the MySQL prompt went fine. I reinstalled mysql-server-5.0, I reinstalled PhpMyAdmin but still no go. After disabling passwords with:

    /usr/bin/mysqld --skip-grant-tables

    Things still didn’t work. My username got encrypted in a weird kind of way after logging in. When logging in PhpMyAdmin just redirected me to the login screen.

    There’s a very simple solution for this problem. This is:

    sudo apt-get install php5-mcrypt

    Then everything will just work fine :).

    admin Posted inTech | 7 Comments »

    7 Responses to “PhpMyAdmin problems after upgrading to Ubuntu Feisty”

  • Thanks for the post, I was having the same thing.

    cousa | At July 4th, 2007 4:34 am

  • Thanks for the pointer. The problem was bugging me for several days and was getting lost in the various locations of phpmyadmin config files in the new versions. Now why did I not think of the missing php5-mcrypt esp. when I know that my Feisty install is not yet fully configured.

    Thanks to your quick post can carry on with life now ;-)

    Gerry | At July 11th, 2007 3:09 pm

  • Thanks for the tip! Now it works :o).

    Before I stumbled across your post I only read the “solution” to delete your cookies, which didn’t work for me.

    Thanks again!

    Matthias | At July 11th, 2007 4:10 pm

  • Cheers mate, have been scratching my head over this for the past week.

    Andy | At July 19th, 2007 1:15 pm

  • You are the man. This has been driving me nuts.

    Mike | At July 27th, 2007 2:48 am

  • “There’s a very simple solution for this problem. This is:
    sudo apt-get install php5-mcrypt”

    Thank you so much for this, it has been driving me nuts, and I have been looking everywhere for a solution, it worked like a charm :)

    Daniel | At August 2nd, 2007 7:36 am

  • thanks. that is the best solution for me.

    yo2k | At August 15th, 2007 6:09 pm

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