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Question

I am trying to get phpMyAdmin installed on my Mac El Capitan. Every time I go to:

http://localhost:8080/phpMyAdmin/setup/

I get the setup page but every time I click "save", I get the following error:

Please create web server writable folder config in phpMyAdmin top level directory as described in documentation. Otherwise you will be only able to download or display it.

I read other threads on Stackoverflow, and did the following:

1. Created manually a file in my MAMP/htdocs/phpMyAdmin/config.inc.php

2. Opened the file and added:

   $i=0;
   $i++;
   $cfg['Servers'][$i]['user']          = 'root';
   $cfg['Servers'][$i]['password']      = 'cbb74bc'; // use here your password
   $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type']     = 'config';
   ?>
   

(That came from a guide found on the path: http://localhost:8080/phpMyAdmin/doc/html/setup.html#setup_script )

This did not solve my problem. I can see around stackoverflow, that this solved the problem for everybody. Does anybody have a clue about what could be wrong here?

Best Regards

Update after answers When I just go to the main folder of the phpadmin I get this error:

Everything should have read/write access now:

Answer 1

Please create web server writable folder config in phpMyAdmin top level directory as described in documentation. Otherwise you will be only able to download or display it.

From the message, you need to create a folder within your root phpMyAdmin directory, named config. And it should be writable by your webserver user.

From the phpMyAdmin docs:

cd phpMyAdmin
mkdir config                        # create directory for saving
chmod o+rw config                   # give it world writable permissions