Mysql: PhpMyAdmin “Wrong permissions on configuration file, should not be world writable!”

I get this error when I try to access localhost/phpmyadmin:

Wrong permissions on configuration file, should not be world writable!

I have already chmoded every file to 555 from 777. What should I do next? I run Ubuntu 11.04.

 Answers

try

sudo chmod 755 /opt/lampp/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php

this command fixed the issue having on my ubuntu 14.04.

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This worked for me: $ pkexec chmod 755 -R /etc/phpmyadmin

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I just solved this problem myself, and this question/answer pair was not helpful to me in particular, so I will add what solved it for me in my specific case.

For starters, I have just began to use a repository so I "chmod 777 -R"'ed my entire /opt/lampp directory to make sure that permissions were not an issue for the pushing of the repository. Then I got two errors, but I think I only saw one of them and the next one showed up after fixing the first one it. I suppose one error was upstaging the other.

The first one was ./lampp/etc/my.cnf A chmod 700 on that file fixed it in my case although, 755 seems to be the better choice that I found in my research.

One file down, one more to go. The other file, which is the one causing the specific error message in this question is ./lampp/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php.

Solution: "$ chmod 755 -R /opt/lampp/phpmyadmin"

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I got the same problem as you. I fixed this problem by following this post :D

But I didn't change the permission from 777 to 755 :O

phpMyAdmin want config.inc.php to be not world writable, it’s sound simple, but not if you run phpMyAdmin from an NTFS filesystem (in my case, linux server who mount a Windows folder) it’s not that simple. There are two way to solve this problem :

Simple way, Linux Server, Linux Filesystem

Just chmod 0755 the file

1	chmod 0755 config.inc.php

Linux or Windows Server, NTFS Filesystem

If like me you run a Linux Virtual Machine who mount a Windows folder where phpMyAdmin sources are located, edit config.inc.php and add this line :

1	$cfg['CheckConfigurationPermissions'] = false;

This will tell phpMyAdmin to stop checking for fileperm because they can’t be properly detected.

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This error occured because phpmyadmin directory has all permissions (777). you can resolved this problem by executing the following command.

sudo chmod 755 /opt/lampp/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php

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Do the following in your terminal

sudo chmod 755 /opt/lampp/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php

After this you have to restart your server

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try if install lampp

sudo chown www-data:www-data -R /opt/lampp/phpmyadmin/*
sudo chown www-data:www-data -R /opt/lampp/phpmyadmin

or if install phpmyadmin

sudo chown www-data:www-data -R /etc/phpmyadmin/*
sudo chown www-data:www-data -R /etc/phpmyadmin

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If you are using ubutu and you have the path like this /opt/lampp then type the following command in terminal.

sudo pkexec chmod 755 -R /opt/lampp/phpmyadmin

Hope this will find out your solution.

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you should change the owner of the server by chown command

from home you can run this command

sudo chown {userName} -R ../../opt

If it does not work yet, run this command

sudo chmod 777 -R ../../opt

It should work now.