PHPMyAdmin : Existing configuration file (./config.inc.php) is not readable

[lijeshk]

When trying to access PhpMyadmin from CPanel/WHM if you are getting the error : "Existing configuration file (./config.inc.php) is not readable"

This means that the ownership of the file “config.inc.php” was not correct  and you can easily fix this by following the bellow given steps :

• Login to the server as root user :

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root@server[#] cd /usr/local/cpanel/base/3rdparty/phpMyAdmin

• Then check the ownership of the file : config.inc.php

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root@server[/usr/local/cpanel/base/3rdparty/phpMyAdmin]# ls -l config.inc.php
-rw-r—– 1 root root 2409 Nov 12 11:57 config.inc.php

• The ownership should be :

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-rw-r—– 1 root cpanelphpmyadmin 2409 Nov 12 11:57 config.inc.php

• Which you can easily set by running the below command :

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root@server[/usr/local/cpanel/base/3rdparty/phpMyAdmin]# chown root:cpanelphpmyadmin config.inc.php
Or

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root@server[/usr/local/cpanel/base/3rdparty/phpMyAdmin]# chown root.cpanelphpmyadmin config.inc.php

• Now when you run the command ls -l config.inc.php it should show the output as :

-

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rw-r—– 1 root cpanelphpmyadmin 2409 Nov 12 11:57 config.inc.php

• Finally restart CPanel service on the server

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root@server[#] /etc/init.d/cpanel restart
That's it
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