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

The problem was the wrong permissions for the /etc/phpMyAdmin directory. The web server user, apache, had proper permissions for the session.save_path directory, but apache couldn't read from my config.inc.php file. Changing the owner of /etc/phpMyAdmin to the apache user and changing the permissions to 755 solved the problem.

Looking at the checkConfigSource() function in Config.class.php led me to believe that if the problem was with accessing the configuration file then I would have received the error 'Existing configuration file (%s) is not readable.' instead of Call to undefined function __() Does anyone know why that wasn't the case?

This was a pretty basic problem/solution, but unless someone suggests otherwise I think I'll leave it up since this exact problem/solution isn't addressed in other discussions of the Fatal error: Call to undefined function __() in /usr/share/phpMyAdmin/libraries/core.lib.php error when trying to start phpMyAdmin after installation.

Answer 2

If phpmyadmin was working fine and then suddenly stops working for no reason with a bizarre and useless error message, you might try deleting your php sessions.

rm -rf /var/lib/php/sessions/*

The exact location may very depending on OS and version, and this will delete all active sessions, not just yours, but it can fix some "suddenly stopped working" issues when you haven't changed anything and it was working fine before.

Answer 3

For me it was different issue. I had given 777 permissions to phpMyAdmin forlder. When I changed it to 755, it worked fine.

Hope this will help someone.

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

Error "The connection was reset"
File: /usr/share/phpmyadmin/libraries/common.inc.php

search:

$GLOBALS['PMA_Config'] = new PMA_Config(CONFIG_FILE);<br>

replace with:

$GLOBALS['PMA_Config'] = new PMA_Config();