Cannot start session without errors, please check errors given in your PHP and/or web

[shiva2211]

Hi!

I am a new to wamp server

I currently installed wamp 2.2 version on my windows xp SP3 system
[Apache version 2.2.21
PHP version 5.3.8
MySQL version 5.5.16]

Have set up my password on config.inc.php, while I try to login to phpMyAdmin I get the following error:
Cannot start session without errors, please check errors given in your PHP and/or webserver log file and configure your PHP installation properly.

mysql error log

111123 18:27:13 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
111123 18:27:13 InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled
111123 18:27:13 InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use Windows interlocked functions
111123 18:27:13 InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.3
111123 18:27:14 InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 128.0M
111123 18:27:14 InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
111123 18:27:14 InnoDB: highest supported file format is Barracuda.
111123 18:27:14 InnoDB: Waiting for the background threads to start
111123 18:27:15 InnoDB: 1.1.8 started; log sequence number 1595675
111123 18:27:16 [Note] Event Scheduler: Loaded 0 events
111123 18:27:16 [Note] wampmysqld: ready for connections.
Version: '5.5.16-log' socket: '' port: 3306 MySQL Community Server (GPL)

config.inc.php:

<?php

$cfg['blowfish_secret'] = '4c02d5e1af2b86.89214560';

/
Servers configuration
/
$i = 0;
/
First server
/
$i++;
/ Authentication type /
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'cookie';
/ Server parameters /
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'localhost';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type'] = 'tcp';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['compress'] = false;
/ Select mysqli if your server has it /
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension'] = 'mysql';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] = false;

/ rajk - for blobstreaming /
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['bs_garbage_threshold'] = 50;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['bs_repository_threshold'] = '32M';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['bs_temp_blob_timeout'] = 600;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['bs_temp_log_threshold'] = '32M';

/ User for advanced features /
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = '';
/ Advanced phpMyAdmin features /
$cfg['Servers'][$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]['tracking'] = 'pma_tracking';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['designer_coords'] = 'pma_designer_coords';

/
End of servers configuration
*/

/
Directories for saving/loading files from server
*/
$cfg['UploadDir'] = '';
$cfg['SaveDir'] = '';

?>

[dagon]

you want to check the php error log.

[shiva2211]

Hi
This is the apache error log

[Thu Nov 24 18:15:35 2011] [notice] Parent: Created child process 3684
[Thu Nov 24 18:15:37 2011] [notice] Child 3684: Child process is running
[Thu Nov 24 18:15:37 2011] [notice] Child 3684: Acquired the start mutex.
[Thu Nov 24 18:15:37 2011] [notice] Child 3684: Starting 64 worker threads.
[Thu Nov 24 18:15:38 2011] [notice] Child 3684: Starting thread to listen on port 80.
[Thu Nov 24 18:19:58 2011] [notice] Parent: Received shutdown signal -- Shutting down the server.
[Thu Nov 24 18:19:58 2011] [notice] Child 3684: Exit event signaled. Child process is ending.
[Thu Nov 24 18:19:59 2011] [notice] Child 3684: Released the start mutex
[Thu Nov 24 18:20:00 2011] [notice] Child 3684: All worker threads have exited.
[Thu Nov 24 18:20:00 2011] [notice] Child 3684: Child process is exiting
[Thu Nov 24 18:20:00 2011] [notice] Parent: Child process exited successfully.
[Thu Nov 24 18:20:37 2011] [notice] Apache/2.2.21 (Win32) PHP/5.3.8 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Thu Nov 24 18:20:37 2011] [notice] Server built: Sep 10 2011 11:34:11
[Thu Nov 24 18:20:37 2011] [notice] Parent: Created child process 3424
[Thu Nov 24 18:20:39 2011] [notice] Child 3424: Child process is running
[Thu Nov 24 18:20:39 2011] [notice] Child 3424: Acquired the start mutex.
[Thu Nov 24 18:20:39 2011] [notice] Child 3424: Starting 64 worker threads.
[Thu Nov 24 18:20:40 2011] [notice] Child 3424: Starting thread to listen on port 80.

Still no change

[shiva2211]

In phpinfo() it states that
error_log c:/wamp/logs/php_error.log c:/wamp/logs/php_error.log

but in the logs folder i can see only 3 files:
access.txt
apache_error.txt
mysql.txt

Is there something missing?

In PHP.ini file I have enabled
error_reporting = E_ALL
error_log = "c:/wamp/logs/php_error.log

[bradgrafelman]

What does phpinfo() report for the values of the PHP directives error_reporting and log_errors?

[shiva2211]

Hi brad!
I am not able to see any php error log file in the logs folder.

[johanafm]

He's talking about the output from phpinfo() since it always report accurate information about your runtime configuration. You may for example have more than one php.ini file and php might not use the one you believe it is.

[shiva2211]

Hi!
I was able to fix the issue by following the below mentioned steps

1 : go to your WAMP icon on your PC desktop screen and LEFT CLICK to open the menu, you will see MYSQL folder, CLICK to see MYSQL CONSOLE, open it.

2: now you have DOS screen ( a black screen ) :

A: if you already set a password, type it
B: if you did not do this step yet, write the following red text
B1: use mysql; and click ENTER on your keyboard
3: now write the following red text and click ENTER :

UPDATE mysql.user
->SET Password=PASSWORD("*******")
->WHERE User="root";

don't worry about this sign ( -> ) , because for example when you write ( UPDATE mysql.user ) and you click ENTER on your keyboard, a new line appear with this sign ( -> ), your command will execute when you write this sign ( ; ) at the end of your text and click ENTER.

NOTE: replace the password ******* by your password.

4: now write the following red text and click ENTER :

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
5: and to exit the black DOS screen now, write exit and click enter.

------------------------- we are finished from MySQL now --------------

6: go to WAMP folder ( open your My Computer, click on C driver, and you will see WAMP folder ), click on APPS folder, and than click on your PHPMYADMIN folder ( e.g my folder called phpmyadmin2.11.6 ) and find the config.inc.php

7: open config.inc.php and find the following orange text:

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = ''; // MySQL password (only needed

and add your password now that you used in step number 3 like that :

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = 'yourpasswordhere'; // MySQL password (only needed

8: now save this modification, and close config.inc.php

Thankyou