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

Question

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.

score 95 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 24 '21 at 16:36

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Try this it will work

sudo chmod 755 /opt/lampp/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php

edited Jul 24 '21 at 16:36

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answered May 21 '18 at 08:16

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score 74 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 24 '21 at 16:39

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Try

sudo chmod 755 /opt/lampp/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php

This command fixed the issue having on my Ubuntu 14.04.

edited Jul 24 '21 at 16:39

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answered Nov 15 '14 at 20:58

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I am on Mac OSX with XAMPP and this solution worked with me but with this command: `sudo chmod 755 /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/phpmyadmin` – Lewis Menelaws Jun 03 '19 at 19:53
Thanks this saved me in 2021!! – Zasha Oct 12 '21 at 23:05

score 44 · Answer 3 · edited Nov 04 '19 at 04:59

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This is because of wrong permission of phpMyAdmin directory and the file config.inc.php

On *nix like OS set the permission of the directory and the file as follows

chmod -R 755 /path/to/phpMyAdmin
chmod 644 /path/to/phpMyAdmin/config.inc.php

If like me you run a Linux Virtual Machine which mount a Windows folder where phpMyAdmin sources are located, edit config.inc.php and add this line

$cfg['CheckConfigurationPermissions'] = false;

edited Nov 04 '19 at 04:59

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answered Apr 26 '16 at 15:09

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Worked for me. Was running phpmyadmin on vagrant. TY :) – Ahmed-Anas Sep 05 '16 at 13:03
tried the last option... since I could not change the perms . – digfish Jan 26 '18 at 20:07
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`$cfg['CheckConfigurationPermissions'] = false;` Thanks it work for me – Tarik Manoar Feb 28 '20 at 08:34
works form me in ubuntu 20.04.1. But config.inc.php file located at /opt/lampstack-8.0.0-1/apps/phpmyadmin/htdocs. – MdFarzan Jan 21 '21 at 12:08
This worked for me on windows vagrant homestead: config.inc.php was already read-only – Alex Jan 27 '21 at 00:38

score 15 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 23 '14 at 23:57

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This worked for me: $ pkexec chmod 755 -R /etc/phpmyadmin

answered Jan 23 '14 at 23:57

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score 14 · Answer 5 · edited Jul 24 '21 at 16:40

For Mac OS users:

Find the file named config.inc.php, usually located in /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php

(this is the filepath on my Mac)

Then click the right mouse click -> Click on Get Info, at the bottom of the box you will find permissions-> click on the Lock icon (bottom right corner)

Put your System Admin Password -> -> where it says everyone, modify this permission to READ ONLY -> click back on the Lock icon and try to open

http://localhost/phpMyadmin http://localhost/phpmyadmin

score 11 · Answer 6 · answered Sep 28 '11 at 01:48

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You should not be making them 777 (which is writeable by everyone). Try 644 instead, which means user has read and write and group and others can only read.

answered Sep 28 '11 at 01:48

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I have this problem and I changed the permissions but I'm still getting the error. I think there are more steps you can take to troubleshoot... – AlxVallejo Aug 22 '12 at 16:48

score 10 · Answer 7 · answered Apr 21 '18 at 06:35

Just in case, someone out there having same issue but changing file permission doesn't solve the issue, add this line to your config.inc.php file

<?php
// other config goes here . . . 
$cfg['CheckConfigurationPermissions'] = false;

And you're good to go.

In my case, I'm using windows 10 WSL with phpmyadmin installed on D: drive. There's no way to (for now) change file permission on local disk through WSL unless your installation directory is inside WSL filesystem it-self. There's updates according to this issue, but still on insider build.

Cheers.

Great Stuff! This works since chmod didn't work for me. – Dyluck Jan 29 '19 at 18:02 — Dyluck, Jan 29 '19 at 18:02

Ryan Mortensen · Answer 8 · 2014-03-12T02:12:56.330

I just solved this problem myself, and this question/answer pair was not helpful to me in particular, so I will add what solved it for me in my specific case.

For starters, I have just began to use a repository so I "chmod 777 -R"'ed my entire /opt/lampp directory to make sure that permissions were not an issue for the pushing of the repository. Then I got two errors, but I think I only saw one of them and the next one showed up after fixing the first one it. I suppose one error was upstaging the other.

The first one was ./lampp/etc/my.cnf A chmod 700 on that file fixed it in my case although, 755 seems to be the better choice that I found in my research.

One file down, one more to go. The other file, which is the one causing the specific error message in this question is ./lampp/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php.

Solution: "$ chmod 755 -R /opt/lampp/phpmyadmin"

score 4 · Answer 9 · answered Oct 30 '13 at 04:34

I got the same problem as you. I fixed this problem by following this post :D

But I didn't change the permission from 777 to 755 :O

http://blog.elijaa.org/index.php?post/2013/02/19/Solve-Wrong-permissions-on-configuration-file%2C-should-not-be-world-writable!-error-on-phpMyAdmin

score 4 · Answer 10 · answered Sep 19 '17 at 05:44

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all you need is to

open terminal type

opt/lampp/lampp start

to start it and then

sudo chmod 755 /opt/lampp/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php

then visit in your browser

localhost/phpmyadmin

it will work fine.

answered Sep 19 '17 at 05:44

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score 2 · Answer 11 · answered Apr 25 '14 at 13:15

I run my system on top of a XAMPP instalation on a OS X.

A few days ago I faced the same problem. I was getting a lot of permission problems when installing and managing CMS test platforms, so I decided to set the entire htdocs subtree to a+rwX permissions, and got the same error.

Although my decision to set the entire subtree to those permissions is generally a mistake, that I made knowingly because this system is only accessable by localhost and otherwise unreachable, the only file that needs permission changing to solve this issue is config.inc.php, and you can leave the rest with the permissions you think you need.

The problem is fixed with:
chmod 644 config.inc.php, or sudo chmod 644 config.inc.php, depending on the system. (issued inside the phpmyadmin folder)

Thank you @zejoao2000 It worked for me on Linux mint also. :) — Phani, Aug 01 '20 at 05:02

score 2 · Answer 12 · edited Apr 29 '17 at 13:14

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This error occured because phpmyadmin directory has all permissions (777). you can resolved this problem by executing the following command.

sudo chmod 755 /opt/lampp/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php

edited Apr 29 '17 at 13:14

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answered Apr 29 '17 at 12:54

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score 2 · Answer 13 · answered Aug 06 '19 at 18:35

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For Mac sudo chmod 755 /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php Worked for me

answered Aug 06 '19 at 18:35

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score 1 · Answer 14 · answered Aug 05 '16 at 11:35

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Do the following in your terminal

sudo chmod 755 /opt/lampp/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php

After this you have to restart your server

answered Aug 05 '16 at 11:35

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score 1 · Answer 15 · answered Aug 27 '17 at 09:42

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try if install lampp

sudo chown www-data:www-data -R /opt/lampp/phpmyadmin/*
sudo chown www-data:www-data -R /opt/lampp/phpmyadmin

or if install phpmyadmin

sudo chown www-data:www-data -R /etc/phpmyadmin/*
sudo chown www-data:www-data -R /etc/phpmyadmin

answered Aug 27 '17 at 09:42

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score 1 · Answer 16 · answered Mar 16 '21 at 06:31

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What the hell? errors say that the file should not be 755 but everyone says should be 755. You should change the permission of the file into 444 to protect it from the edit.

run this command:

sudo chmod 444 /opt/lampp/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php

answered Mar 16 '21 at 06:31

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this should be the accepted answer. – Mujtaba Oct 26 '21 at 09:37

score 1 · Answer 17 · answered Apr 25 '21 at 23:07

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Mac/ MAMP:

sudo chmod -R 755 /Applications/MAMP/bin/phpMyAdmin

worked for me.

answered Apr 25 '21 at 23:07

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score 0 · Answer 18 · answered Apr 01 '21 at 15:08

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On My Mac using XAMPP i simply did

sudo chmod 755 /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php

answered Apr 01 '21 at 15:08

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score 0 · Answer 19 · edited May 19 '21 at 13:31

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These problem arises due to permission we can't give the all permission of our database config If you are using ubuntu and you have the path like this /opt/lampp then type the following command in terminal.

sudo chmod 755 /opt/lampp/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php

edited May 19 '21 at 13:31

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answered May 18 '21 at 12:19

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score 0 · Answer 20 · answered Sep 06 '22 at 05:03

For me, the error just appaered this morning, without doing any updates.

If your using the official docker container without Your own config.inc.php, You can find the file located in /etc/phpmyadmin

So the solution would be

docker exec nameofyourphpmyadmincontainer chmod 0644 /etc/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php

or mount an external config.inc.php into docker container on start.

score 0 · Answer 21 · answered Nov 12 '22 at 12:19

Goto lampp folder and change the owner back to root
Change permission to 755 -> This will start the phpmyadmin working again
Goto htdocs folder and make your user as owner of the folder and give 777 permission so that you can start the localhost project
If with step 3 error such as write access denied comes, then for htdocs folder, right click and give permissions to all files/folders recursively

Hope this helps.

score 0 · Answer 22 · answered Jun 10 '23 at 00:46

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for macbook users who didn't understand how to navigate to config.inc.php

open terminal
execute this command cd /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/phpmyadmin
execute this command sudo chmod 755 config.inc.php

answered Jun 10 '23 at 00:46

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score -1 · Answer 23 · edited Dec 04 '20 at 15:39

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To restrict access on this file /phpmyadmin/config.inc.php and he will work.

Simple tape this : sudo chmod 750 /phpmyadmin/config.inc.php !

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answered Mar 31 '15 at 10:27

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score -1 · Answer 24 · answered Mar 15 '16 at 17:30

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If you are using ubutu and you have the path like this /opt/lampp then type the following command in terminal.

sudo pkexec chmod 755 -R /opt/lampp/phpmyadmin

Hope this will find out your solution.

answered Mar 15 '16 at 17:30

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score -1 · Answer 25 · answered Mar 11 '17 at 14:11

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you should change the owner of the server by chown command

from home you can run this command

sudo chown {userName} -R ../../opt

If it does not work yet, run this command

sudo chmod 777 -R ../../opt

It should work now.

answered Mar 11 '17 at 14:11

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

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Then click the right mouse click -> Click on Get Info, at the bottom of the box you will find permissions-> click on the Lock icon (bottom right corner)

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