PMA Database … not OK in phpMyAdmin upgrade

Question

I have just been wrangling with phpMyAdmin and MySQL server on my Win8 PC IIS localhost (there was no connection between these, which I think was due to MySQL service not st

Answer 1

I have found that there is another cause for this issue. If when you create the pmauser for phpmyadmin to use, if you forget to assign that user rights to the schema that permit modifying the phpmyadmin database, you'll get the same messages. The good news is that if you've logged in with root or similar privileges, you can just allow the pmauser to have select, insert, delete on the phpmyadmin schema and the problem should be fixed.

Answer 2

There are a few google links on this same issue that I have followed that have helped me fix this (I should have spent more time googling before posting!). So to solve the problem I needed to create a phpmyadmin database and import create_tables.sql and assign a new user with full privileges and then uncomment the config.inc.php file at:

/* User used to manipulate with storage */ $cfg['Servers'][$i]['controlhost'] = ''; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['controluser'] = 'phpmyadmin';

and uncomment lines below

/* Storage database and tables */ $cfg['Servers'][$i]['pmadb'] = 'phpmyadmin';

I also needed to add some lines from the new version config.sample.inc There was a good link describing this I wanted to save but I had to clear my browser cache to reload localhost/phpMyAdmin and in doing so I lost my history & that link!

I know this explanation is not exactly described but I hope it may help anyone else who gets a similar issue after updating phpMyAdmin. I'm still not sure what all these features do but it is all fixed now, thanks!

Answer 3

As I'm not very good in English I used google translator, so any error I'm sorry ;)

Hello, I had this same problem and the solution:

After setting all phpmmyadmin, you need to run the file "create_tables" in the phpmyadmin sql console itself, found at: phpmyadmin\sql\create_tables.sql

After creating it you need to configure the file "config.inc", found on the phpmyadmin folder. In it you include the following information equal to file "config.sample.inc" which is an example.

/* User used to manipulate with storage */
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controlhost'] = 'localhost';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controluser'] = 'user';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controlpass'] = 'password';

/* Storage database and tables */
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pmadb'] = 'phpmyadmin';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['bookmarktable'] = 'pma__bookmark';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['relation'] = 'pma__relation';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_info'] = 'pma__table_info';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_coords'] = 'pma__table_coords';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pdf_pages'] = 'pma__pdf_pages';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['column_info'] = 'pma__column_info';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['history'] = 'pma__history';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_uiprefs'] = 'pma__table_uiprefs';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['tracking'] = 'pma__tracking';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['designer_coords'] = 'pma__designer_coords';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['userconfig'] = 'pma__userconfig';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['recent'] = 'pma__recent';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['users'] = 'pma__users';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['usergroups'] = 'pma__usergroups';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['navigationhiding'] = 'pma__navigationhiding';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['savedsearches'] = 'pma__savedsearches';

Edit : ( suggested by @Greeso )

For new versions, you should also add :

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['designer_settings'] = 'pma__designer_settings';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['export_templates'] = 'pma__export_templates';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['central_columns'] = 'pma__central_columns';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['favorite'] = 'pma__favorite';

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Done, exit and reenter the session.

Answer 4

For me the db phpmyadmin was missing, you can find the file create_tables.sql inside the phpmyadmin installation in the sql/ directory. You can use this file to rebuild your table.

From the command line, you can import that sql file. # mysql -u root < create_tables.sql

Be careful this will probably overrwrite your data, dont run it until you move your old phpmyadmin table, if you have one intact already.

Answer 5

Quick fixing script that does the job in one command:

curl -O -k https://raw.githubusercontent.com/skurudo/phpmyadmin-fixer/master/pma.sh && chmod +x pma.sh && ./pma.sh

Read through the actual code in this repo link

Answer 6

This will reinstall phpmyadmin:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure phpmyadmin

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