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

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good_evening picture good_evening · Sep 28, 2011 · Viewed 126.7k times · Source

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.

Answer

diEcho picture diEcho · Nov 15, 2014

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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