Cannot login with PhpMyAdmin on Mac os x 10.6. Does anyone know a fix to this error message?

Question

Hi,

I just reinstalled Mac Os X 10.6.2 and had to reinstall/update my MySQL server. I run phpMyAdmin inside my localhost and I used to be able to login without a hitch.

Since the updated (latest version MySQL 5.1.45 & PMA 3.3.1) versions I only get the following error when trying to login with phpMyAdmin:

phpMyAdmin - Error

Cannot start session without errors, please check errors given in your PHP
and/or webserver log file and configure your PHP installation properly.

The only thing I noticed is that mcrypt cannot be loaded (this has always been the case, no idea what to do to install this..) but this has never been a problem before.

If anyone know what to do here that would be really appreciated.

Thanks for reading,

Jannis

PS: The MySQL server itself is running and I am able to login with as root user via the MySQL Administrator.app

Answer 1

Well setting log_errors to on would bring error messages to the web-server's error_log. To do so you can use an .htaccess file placed in your web root with

php_value log_errors = 1

in it. It can be not worked but there is some other ways too. You can edit your php.ini for example and restart your server after it.

Without error message it's hard to guess what is really happened. there can be something wrong with session save path or other settings