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phpMyAdmin "More Settings" Option Generates Blank Page

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phpMyAdmin works well except for a couple of links on the Home Page.

There are two links to More Settings, however they both take me to a blank page.

Am I missing a module, or does it need reinstalling?

The apache error.log reports:

[Fri May 31 09:22:06 2013] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down

[Fri May 31 09:23:04 2013] [notice] Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.4.9-4ubuntu2 configured -- resuming normal operations

[Fri May 31 11:14:32 2013] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down

[Fri May 31 11:15:52 2013] [notice] Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.4.9-4ubuntu2 configured -- resuming normal operations

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answered 3 Years ago onomicsiberated · Accepted Answer

Ok, this is a bug which has fix but not available in raring, at least not yet. Why on earth is phpmyadmin using eval?

This bug was fixed in the package phpmyadmin - 4:4.0.1-2

--------------- phpmyadmin (4:4.0.1-2) unstable; urgency=low

Add /usr/share/javascript to open_basedir config (closes: #708611).

Wrap check_file_access() function in config.inc.php in a
function_exists block, because this file sometimes gets included
twice (LP: #1175142).

The Fixes

1. Function already defined fix

Open problematic config file: sudo vi /etc/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php and change the following:

function check_file_access($path)

{

    if (is_readable($path)) {

        return true;

    } else {

        error_log(

            'phpmyadmin: Failed to load ' . $path

            . ' Check group www-data has read access and open_basedir restrictions.'

        );

        return false;

    }

}

to

if (!function_exists('check_file_access')) {

    function check_file_access($path)

    {

        if (is_readable($path)) {

            return true;

        } else {

            error_log(

                'phpmyadmin: Failed to load ' . $path

                . ' Check group www-data has read access and open_basedir restrictions.'

            );

            return false;

        }

    }

}

Note: All you're doing here is adding the function exists check if (!function_exists('check_file_access')) { }.

Saucy proposed source with the fix

2. If that doesn't solve the problem, you may also need to add `/usr/share/javascript` to `open_basedir` config

Open the apache config file: sudo vi /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf and change:

php_admin_value open_basedir /usr/share/phpmyadmin/:/etc/phpmyadmin/:/var/lib/phpmyadmin/:/usr/share/php/php-gettext/

to

php_admin_value open_basedir /usr/share/phpmyadmin/:/etc/phpmyadmin/:/var/lib/phpmyadmin/:/usr/share/php/php-gettext/:/usr/share/javascript/