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problem with phpmyadmin

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#1: Sep 5 '09
hi ,
I installed lampp and gave read/ write permission . when i opened http://localhost/phpmyadmin/ i got following error.

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

need a help to solve this problem

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#2: Sep 5 '09

re: problem with phpmyadmin

you could solve this by issuing the following command:
chmod a-w /folder/to/phpmyadmin/conffile
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#3: Sep 5 '09

re: problem with phpmyadmin

Just a note, your installation document should have had a note to make sure of these permissions.

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Jeff
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#4: Sep 5 '09

re: problem with phpmyadmin

You answered your own question: you gave the file read/write permissions, and the error was that the file should not have write permissions.

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#5: Oct 1 '09

re: problem with phpmyadmin

this problem is solved
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