{"id":11,"date":"2009-09-11T05:08:37","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T09:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/?p=11"},"modified":"2013-03-20T08:39:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T12:39:00","slug":"phpmyadmin-access-cannot-start-session-without-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/phpmyadmin-access-cannot-start-session-without-errors","title":{"rendered":"phpMyAdmin: Cannot start session without errors."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;phpMyAdmin: Cannot start session without errors&#8221;<\/strong> is a common error while accessing phpmyadmin on a cPanel server. The problem relates to either of the following listed issues OR both<\/p>\n<p><strong>a)<\/strong> session.save_path parameter is not set properly in the phpMyAdmin configuration.<br \/>\n<strong>b)<\/strong> Ownership of the &#8216;phpmyadmin&#8217; directory is incorrect.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>1)<\/strong><\/span> To set &#8220;session.save_path&#8221;,\u00a0 edit the phpMyAdmin configuration file<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong># pico \/usr\/local\/cpanel\/base\/3rdparty\/phpMyAdmin\/config.inc.php<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Search for the parameter and set the value to \/tmp<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>session.save_path =\u00a0 \/tmp<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">2)<\/span> <\/strong>To correct the ownership of the directory, <strong>goto \/var\/cpanel\/userhomes directory<\/strong> and execute<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong> <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>#  chown cpanelphpmyadmin.cpanelphpmyadmin cpanelphpmyadmin -R<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Once the issues are corrected, open phpMyAdmin in a different window ( to eliminate cache problem) and it should work fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;phpMyAdmin: Cannot start session without errors&#8221; is a common error while accessing phpmyadmin on a cPanel server. The problem relates to either of the following listed issues OR both<br \/>\na) session.save_path parameter is not set properly in the phpMyAdmin configuration.<br \/>\nb) Ownership of the &#8216;phpmyadmin&#8217; directory is incorrect.<br \/>\n1) To set &#8220;session.save_path&#8221;,\u00a0 edit the phpMyAdmin configuration file<br \/>\n# pico \/usr\/local\/cpanel\/base\/3rdparty\/phpMyAdmin\/config.inc.php<br \/>\nSearch for the parameter and set the value to \/tmp<br \/>\nsession.save_path =\u00a0 \/tmp<br \/>\n2) To correct the ownership of the directory, goto \/var\/cpanel\/userhomes directory and execute<\/p>\n<p>#  chown cpanelphpmyadmin.cpanelphpmyadmin cpanelphpmyadmin -R<\/p>\n<p>Once the issues [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[948,946,385,944,949,386,945,947],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}