Error in phpMyAdmin after updating to v4.8.0: The $cfg['TempDir'] (./tmp/) is not accessible

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David picture David · Apr 9, 2018 · Viewed 93.7k times · Source

phpMyAdmin worked fine with v4.7.9. Now after updating to v4.8.0 today (replacing the old phpmyadmin folder against the new one) I'm getting this message in phpMyAdmin:

The $cfg['TempDir'] (./tmp/) is not accessible. phpMyAdmin is not able to cache templates and will be slow because of this.

I added the folder ./tmp/ like like this: /usr/share/tmp

phpMyAdmin is on: /usr/share/phpmyadmin

This didn't change anything.

Who know this error? What can I do?

Answer

David picture David · Apr 9, 2018

Solution was to create a folder called tmp like this: /usr/share/phpmyadmin/tmp.

Also make sure that the user (or group) running the webserver (e.g. Apache) has write access to the newly created tmp folder. Consequently, change the ownership to that user or add write access for all users. The latter one might not be really advisable.

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