phpmyadmin not working because i changed permissions and don't know how to change it back

Question

I installed LAMPP and it worked fine, but i somehow managed to change the permission of the folder /opt/lampp/ to 777 by using this command

sudo chmod 777 -f /opt/lampp -R

My plans was to do:

sudo chmod 777 -f /opt/lampp/htdocs/ -R

And now when I'm going to localhost/phpmyadmin in the browser i get this error:

Could someone help me to fix this?

Solution

Try to issue this command:

chmod 0755 config.inc.php

PMA doesn't want the config.inc.php to be world writable, in your case, you made it world writable by chmod 777. If it doesn't work, try to issue the command below:

chmod 755 -R /opt/lampp/phpmyadmin

This will do a recursive chmod on your phpmyadmin folder.

If it still doesn't work, try to remove the phpmyadmin installation and reinstall.

Comments

[Chester]

why not reinstall phpmyadmin?