phpMyAdmin Fatal error: Call to undefined function __()

Question

Server running RHEL 7 and PHP 5.4.16. When I try to open /phpMyAdmin in my browser, I\'m given the error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function __() in /us

Answer 1

Had the same Error message from phpMyAdmin :: FastCGI sent in stderr: "PHP message: PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function __() in /usr/share/phpMyAdmin/libraries/core.lib.php on line 245" while reading response header from upstream, client:

Solution that worked on my Fedora 22 server x86_64 using nginx : changing the owner and the group identifier from root:apache on the file /var/lib/php/session
to root:nginx
using the command sudo chown -Rfv root:nginx /var/lib/php/session.