Have been using MAMP Pro for a fair while - version 3 primarily, upgraded to 4 a while ago.
I haven't had any unusual issues at all, but today the Apache service failed to start, telling me to check the error logs. The logs were blank unfortunately... I've made no system configuration changes, no changes to MAMP/MAMP Pro. Shut down my system yesterday, started today, it no longer works...
I've tried numerous suggestions found via Stack Overflow and Google without any success.
Even after completely uninstalling and re-installing MAMP Pro I am unable to get the service to start.
Nothing appears in the logs...
When starting it manually on the command line it comes up with a PHP related error:
$ Applications/MAMP/bin/apache2/bin/apachectl start
httpd: Syntax error on line 135 of /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/httpd.conf: Cannot load /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.2.17/modules/libphp5.so into server: dlopen(/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.2.17/modules/libphp5.so, 10): image not found
The confusing thing is that I don't have PHP 5.2.17 specified anywhere, at all - according to MAMP Pro it should be using PHP 7.0.12.
If I add PHP 5.2.17 to MAMP using the appropriate MAMP Pro dialogs, Apache still fails to start via the MAMP Pro interface. I can now start it manually from the command line however, but none of my virtual hosts/etc seem to be loaded.
apachectl -V tells me it's using /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/httpd.conf, but there is nothing in that file that has any reference to any of the configs generated in /Library/Application Support/appsolute/MAMP PRO/conf
It also looks like hosts entries aren't added to /etc/hosts.
Even if I tell /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/httpd.conf to do nothing but include /Library/Application Support/appsolute/MAMP PRO/conf/httpd.conf (and manually add entries to /etc/hosts) it still doesn't seem to work at all...
I and my colleagues are at a complete loss, especially given it was working yesterday...
Has anyone had any issues like this?
I managed to fix the similar issue you had.
My Apache server was working fine and then following updating to 4.0.6 I experienced similar issues.
There were 2 things I did to fix the issue. I was getting the same error where it couldn't find a php file in 5.2.17. After fixing that by adding 5.2.17 to MAMP I experienced an apache error regarding user permissions.
(22)Invalid argument: getpwuid: couldn't determine user name from uid 4294967295, you probably need to modify the User directive
File > Edit Template > Revert ALL Templates to Default Settings.
Save & restarted the servers and all worked finally and all my hosts had retained as well.
I had previously entered a custom line in my httpd.conf file that for countless versions had copied across fine however it looks like the folder structure had changed and so couldn't locate it causing the unusual error about User permissions. I have since re-entered the custom line with the correct structure and all working fine again.
Hope this helps.
Related
Please do not close this question, it's not a duplicate and the suggested link explaining how to use quotes on MySQL does nothing for me since this problem is inside a WP script. Thanks
I’m trying to install WP 5.4.1 on a clean Windows 2019 Server virtual machine.
I didn’t use Microsoft Web Platform Installer since it download old versions of WP / MySQL and PHP, so I’m trying to install from scratch.
Here are the steps I’ve taken:
Downloaded and Installed latest PHP 7.4.5, non thread safe version
and installed it
renamed php.ini-production to php.ini
Edited php.ini to:
upload_max_filesize = 64M
post_max_size = 64M
max_execution_time = 300
extesion=mysqli (removed the semicolon here since PHP needs this driver to connect to MySQL8)
In IIS I created the *.php mapping and added default.php and index.php
Created the dummy phpinfo.php file and tested on IIS, all working correctly and phpinfo() shows data
Downloaded MySQL 8.0.20 and installed with the following options:
Server only
Standalone
Server computer
For the authentication method I choose ‘Use Stron password encryption’ as suggested by the PHP installer
added MySQL BIN folder to path environment variable
opened %PROGRAMDATA%\MySQL\MySQL Server 8.0\my.ini and disabled sha2 and enable native_password:
;default_authentication_plugin=caching_sha2_password
default_authentication_plugin=mysql_native_password
created a new database for WP, called wp1 (in MySQL 8, the ‘one liner’ to create the user and grant access at the same time doesn’t work, so we need to do it in 2 lines)
mysql -u root -p
create database wp1;
CREATE USER ‘wp1’#’%’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘password’;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wp1.* TO ‘wp1’#’%’;
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT
created the folder C:\intepub\wwroot\wp1 and give full access to IUSR and Users windows groups so WP can write the config files
In IIS, right click on the Default Web Site and click on Add Application pointing to the new wp1 folder
navigate to localhost/wp1 to start WP installation
So after selecting the language and entering the DB info, I get this error
WordPress database error Unknown column ‘wp_’ in ‘field list’ for query SELECT wp_
After hours fighting with this, here’s what I found:
the error came from the DB, not WP.
tried with both wp1 and root users during the installation
tried with both localhost and 127.0.0.1 during the installation
the error generates in setup-config.php file, line 315 $wpdb->query("SELECT $prefix")
seems the problem is that what arrives at MySQL is the string select wp_ insted of select 'wp_' (note the missing quotes)
If I go to MySQL and execute select wp_ I get the exact same error
So the issue seems to be related to how MySQL 8.0 is handling quotes in the query it receives from WP installer…
I restored a snapshot just before installing MySQL 8.0.20 and this time, instead of
Use Strong Password Encryption for Authentication
I selected
Use Legacy Authentication Method (Retain MySQL 5.x Compatibility) but the error is still the same
Before answering, please consider:
I’m looking to solve the issue, not to start a discussion whatever I should use MySQL 5.x instead of MySQL 8.x
Yes, the connection to the database is Ok, that’s not the problem, please read all the my post
Yes, wp-config is being written with the correct values
Even tough I saw many messages with this same error on the WP forum, they normally have no answer, or the answer don’t make any sense (like asking to OP to check the DB credentials and write access to the WP folder), still I posted on the WP forum, but I no answer yet.
Sorry for my poor formatting!
Can anyone please help?
Finally found the issue...
TLDR; edit your php.ini and make sure you have both:
display_errors = On
error_log = php_errors.log
Setting error_log solves the issue... I guess that when error_log has no value (default configuration), PHP decides to send the error back to the calling program, resulting in the error message column 'wp_' in 'field list' during the WP installation.
More details here
I just deleted lines 317 to 322 in wp-admin\setup-config.php re-ran the setup and it all worked fine.
Might not be the right solution but the only thing that worked for me.
This was for WP 5.5.3, previous versions I had no issues downloading and installing
This error is possible if WordPress version doesn't support server's PHP version.
In my case I recently installed the latest XAMPP with PHP 8.1.1 and had to downgrade PHP to 8.0.14 in order for WordPress 5.8.2/5.8.3 to be installed and work properly.
I just deleted lines 317 to 322 in wp-admin\setup-config.php re-ran the setup and it all worked fine.
Might not be the right solution but the only thing that worked for me.
This was for WP 5.5.3, previous versions I had no issues downloading and installing
Same for me on version 5.6.2 when trying to install a second site using the same database so needed new table prefix
None of the above solutions is worked for my case. Because I have already installed Mysql workbench on my windows machine. I stopped the already running mysql server, I have followed the below mentioned steps.
Open command prompt, then navigate to the following path
C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 8.0\
Then ran the following command
mysqladmin -u root -p shutdown
After that I restarted the apache and mysql on xampp server it is working fine.
I found a solution, for me the problem was in php folder (exactly "php.ini" file), so to get the standard settings I just installed windows server 2019 in VMWare then installed "php 7.4" using web platform, then I copied the PHP folder from VMWare "C:\Program Files (x86)\PHP\v7.4" to my PC (windows10), then I download "wordpress5.8.2", and "mysql8.0.1", after installing mysql and creating DB for wordpress(just create DB) and setup the IIS in my windows10, I ran localhost and every thing working good and wordpress installed without any errors.
So try to get the php.ini that installed with web platform and overwrite it on your php folder and run, if it does not work try to copy the whole php folder and try again, I tried this with php 8.0 but have many errors.
I just set up XAMPP and, when I start the Apache localhost, it displays all of these errors when I search "localhost/phpmyadmin"
I am very new to this (just downloaded XAMPP) and I watched this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqfIksHKPPg on setting it up (I didn't install phpmyadmin since it was already installed with XAMPP)
I edited the notepad text files as stated in the video, but instead of a login, I get all of the error messages shown in the above picture...
I also opened config.inc.php and edited the line:
['Servers'][$i]['(MySQL root password)'] = '';$cfg
so it matched MySQL root password
Even if you have a suggestion to fix one of the errors, please still comment
Also, if you need any more information please let me know
You're getting several error messages because you have several problems :)
Cannot connect: invalid settings
Some setting is incorrect, most likely something in your config.inc.php is misspelled or incorrectly copied and pasted. Specifically, if the line ['Servers'][$i]['(MySQL root password)'] = '';$cfg is actually how it appears in your configuration, that is clearly the problem as the line should actually be $cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = 'green'; except with you password instead of 'green'...except that only applies if your auth_type is 'config', otherwise the 'password' line isn't used at all (since you're prompted for the password at log in). I'm not sure what XAMPP does here for auth_type, but I don't think you should have had to edit the configuration file at all, since you used the XAMPP installer which should have configured everything.
The server requested authentication method unknown to the client [sha256_password]
This appears to be a bit of a version mismatch in your installed files. Access denied after setting user's password with SHA256 in phpMyAdmin goes in to more detail, but this most often occurs when you've got MySQL 8 and PHP older than 7.4. Normally, I'd suggest upgrading your PHP version — but you're using the packaged XAMPP, which certainly wouldn't ship with conflicting MySQL and PHP versions, so something is odd here. Please confirm for us your MySQL and PHP versions. You didn't happen to have an existing MySQL or PHP installation before you installed XAMPP, did you?
Connection for controluser as defined in your configuration failed
This is probably related to the MySQL 8/PHP 7.4 conflict. There is an administrative user (called the controluser) that phpMyAdmin can use to manage some extra features, ordinarily you wouldn't need it to access phpMyAdmin (only to access those additional features), but it seems XAMPP has configured this for you. Since the authentication fails, you get an additional message that the controluser was not able to connect.
You could bypass this by commenting out the configuration lines referencing controluser and controlpass, although again the XAMPP package should have this all configured so I don't recommend that at this point.
The other messages are basically echoes of the previous messages; you get an additional protocol notification because the controluser is trying the same sha256 connection type that the main user was, and then finally phpMyAdmin is telling you that MySQL rejected the connection.
If this is a fresh XAMPP install, I'd suggest reinstalling, because something got a bit confused. I'd also suggest making sure that you don't have any other conflicting software running — XAMPP is a package of all the included parts, so you don't want to install or run your own Apache or MySQL instance which would interfere with the packaged kit.
i have been using MAMP PRO and xdebug for years (through Netbeans) and suddenly I am unable to debug. I have narrowed the issue down to the following. Whenever I append the parameter XDEBUG_SESSION_START=anyvalue to the localhost url the page freezes, and obviously, Netbeans just waits for a connection.
for example, the following url works fine:
localhost:8888/index.php
this url freezes:
localhost:8888/anypage.php?XDEBUG_SESSION_START=netbeans-xdebug
I have tried:
-closing all copies of Netbeans.
-restarting MAMP PRO.
-restarting the Mac.(Mavericks)
-deleting MAMP temp files in /Applications/MAMP/tmp/php
-creating a new MAMP host ..ex localhost1
nothing seems to fix the problem. There is nothing wrong with the php.ini file, or Netbeans config, or xdebug config. I am desperate.
To be clear, when i restart the computer, start MAMP PRO and nothing else (Netbeans is not running), then go here in ANY BROWSER---
localhost:8888/anypage.php?XDEBUG_SESSION_START=netbeans-xdebug
the page does not load and just waits.
other examples the following DOES load
localhost:8888/anypage.php?XDEBUG_SESSION_ST=netbeans-xdebug
the following DOES NOT load
localhost:8888/anypage.php?XDEBUG_SESSION_START=netb
what is blocking the connection when the get parameter "XDEBUG_SESSION_START" is added??? I am ready to give up.
Fixed this by changing one line in the php.ini file from:
xdebug.remote_host=localhost:8888
to:
xdebug.remote_host=127.0.0.1:8888
I have no idea why it worked with localhost for years, and all of a sudden did not. I suspect the installation of Xcode, but cannot prove or disprove.
For some unknown reason I cannot start WAMP server - The icon stays yellow no matter what:
Checked port 80, and it's not used.
No Skype, no Firewall.
Tried MANY solutions I suggested here in stackoverflow - absolutely nothing.
Tried to uninstall and reinstall - it worked for 10 minutes, then it didn't work again.
The only thing I'm changing is to include Virtual Hosts under httpd.conf. Checked every solution I could find on the net - nothing is working for me.
Maybe, just maybe it's because I previously installed PHP 5.5 apart from WAMP? If I go to PHP > PHP Extensions > then I can see there's a problem in php_opcache and php_enchant. When I click on them I get an error message that says: Could not execute menu item (internal error). [Execption] Could not perform service action: the service has not been started. The PHP Version I installed is 5.5.15. The PHP WAMP is 5.5.12... I don't have a clue how to uninstall PHP, and I couldn't find anything about that on the net.
PHP Error log says: PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'c:/wamp/bin/php/php5.5.12/ext/php_intl.dll' - %1 is not a valid Win32 application. in Unknown on line 0
EDIT - It seems like the cause for the problem is me trying to include Virtual Host via httpd.conf file. When I excluded, like in default, WAMP is online again. Any suggestion of how to include virtual host and still get WAMP get online?
It looks like you're running on a corrupt install have you tried reinstalling the software?
Alternatively i would recommend using Xampp which basically offers the same service as Wampp only with a bit more ease of access (also allowing for Mecury mail service and an FTP server for remote access).
The problem with php_intl can be corrected easily, see this answer
In order to find out what Apache is complaining about with the Virtual Hosts definition look at the Windows Event Log or, launch a command window and
cd \wamp\bin\apache\apachex.y.z\bin
httpd -t
This should give you filename and line number where your errors are.
Try changing that port number anyway. Mine stays yellow if the port number is set to 80, even though WAMP says it's not being used by any other program.
WAMP installed fine, no problems, BUT...
When going to phpMyAdmin, I get the error from phpMyAdmin as follows:
Cannot load mysqli extension. Please check your PHP configuration
Also, phpMyAdmin documentation explains this error message as follows:
To connect to a MySQL server, PHP needs a set of MySQL functions
called "MySQL extension". This extension may be part of the PHP
distribution (compiled-in), otherwise it needs to be loaded
dynamically. Its name is probably mysql.so or php_mysql.dll.
phpMyAdmin tried to load the extension but failed. Usually, the
problem is solved by installing a software package called "PHP-MySQL"
or something similar.
Finally, the apache_error.log file has the following PHP warnings (see the mySQL warning):
PHP Warning: Zend Optimizer does not support this version of PHP - please upgrade to the latest version of Zend Optimizer in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: Zend Platform does not support this version of PHP - please upgrade to the latest version of Zend Platform in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: Zend Debug Server does not support this version of PHP - please upgrade to the latest version of Zend Debug Server in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: gd wrapper does not support this version of PHP - please upgrade to the latest version of gd wrapper in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: java wrapper does not support this version of PHP - please upgrade to the latest version of java wrapper in Unknown on line 0
PHP Warning: mysql wrapper does not support this version of PHP - please upgrade to the latest version of mysql wrapper in Unknown on line 0
So, for some reason PHP is not recognizing the mysql extension.
Anyone know why? Any solution or workaround?
I deleted the PHP in program files ad everything started working , the problem that there two installations of pHp
I tried many solutions, and none worked for me. I tried the following solutions:
Restart wampserver
Reinstall wampserver
restart machine
and all other solutions mentioned in this question.
However, none of these worked. Then I found that my PHPMyAdmin was not working in chrome and was working in firefox. So I tried clearing cache, restarting browser etc, but still it would not work.
Then I deleted all the files from C:\wamp\tmp and then tried again, and it works. I am not sure why it works, but here is what I think. The session was cached and not getting cleared. So as soon as I deleted all files in this directory all the sessions were deleted and hence it worked fine.
First, make sure that the php.ini file is loading the mysqli extension.
If you are using WAMPServer, click on the icon in the system tray, go to PHP -> PHP Extensions and make sure it is checked. If not, go into the php.ini file and make sure that the line: extension=php_mysqli.dll is uncommented (eg, remove the ; if it exists). If that line does not exist, add it.
If this still does not work, double check that the right php.ini file is being loaded.
To do so, view your phpinfo() (Here for WAMPServer). Scroll down to the Loaded Configuration File row and see which php.ini is being loaded.Make sure it is the right file. If you're using WAMPServer, it should be(WAMP INSTALL FOLDER)\bin\apache\Apache2.2.11\bin\php.ini. By default, it isC:\wamp\bin\apache\Apache2.2.11\bin\php.ini`.
If a different php.ini file is being loaded, just rename it to something else so that PHP will try and find the file somewhere else. There should be a way to specify which on eyou want to use, but I forget exactly how to do that...
If this still doesn't work... Try messing around with phpMyAdmin's settings, or using another answer, but I'm afraid I can't help beyond this.
I was running WAMP with two PHP versions 1) 5.2.9 and 2) 5.2.13.
As per site requirement i needed to change PHP version to 5.2.9 from 5.2.13. after swapping PHP version, error was "mysqli extension is missing". after debugging long time i get to know it was due to wrong "extension_dir" path in php.ini file.
So i changed its value:
Old: "extension_dir" c:/wamp/bin/php/php5.2.13/ext/
New: "extension_dir" c:/wamp/bin/php/php5.2.9/ext/
Restarted All services in wamp server, then it's fixed.
I had the same problem. I had WAMP server installed. All was working fine. Then one day I restarted my computer and it just stopped working! I tried desperately going through all help posts and doing them but nothing worked.
What they usually suggest you do is, first go to your php.ini file and make sure your 'extension_dir' is properly set. Then to make sure these two lines are not commented (remove the ; infront):
extension=php_mysql.dll
extension=php_mysqli.dll
Then some suggested that I download fresh copies of these two files but none worked. I also tried uninstalling everything (php/mysql/apache) and reinstalled fresh copies of WAMP server several times but with no luck.
Finally I managed to find an alternative solution. I switched to 'easyphp' (http://www.easyphp.org/). This is something very similar to WAMP. First I made backups of my sql databases so I can reload them on the new installation.
Then I installed 'easyphp' and everything seems to work fine. I reloaded my sql databases from my backup and now things are back to normal.
I hope someone suffering from a similar prob. will find this useful. If someone has really found a fix to make WAMP server work. Pls do be kind enough to post it here so many will benefit.
in wampserver go to php.ini. open the file and uncomment extension=msql.dll by removing semicolon(;) for respective operating sytem.
Just add in your php.ini:
[PHP_MCRYPT]
extension=php_mcrypt.dll
[PHP_MYSQL]
extension=php_mysql.dll
[PHP_MYSQLI]
extension=php_mysqli.dll
Also setup the mysql password:
SET PASSWORD FOR root#localhost=PASSWORD('your_password');
And the phpmyadmin mysql password in config.inc.php:
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = 'your_password';
Had the same problem, with wamp. Try to exchange your current version of php.ini with a backup. There is one in: wamp\bin\php\php5.3.0phpForApache.txt. Worked for me.
Just wanted to chime in on this one. Using Wamp Server 2.0, and using Zend Studio with Zend debugger for development.
I wasn't able as of yet (will get back to it at some point) to get the zend debugger working with php 5.3. So in wamp I loaded an earlier php version, 5.2.11. I was getting the same error when acessing php my admin.
What I had to do was change the php.ini file value for "extension_dir" to c:/wamp/bin/php/php5.2.11/ext/ to match the version of php I was using. After that it was all good.
I had this problem and spent 2 hours trying all the solutions online, none worked.
Tried this, and it woked:
Change
mysql.default_host =
to
mysql.default_host = localhost
and restart WAMP. pay attention if you are using mysqli or not.
I had the same error. When I increased the script memory size and enabled E_ALL then restarted the server, I got that error in phpmyadmin. All I had to do to fix it was restart my computer!
I got this problem for a long time. Tried all I've read on forums and this finally worked for me:
Open your php.ini (I assume you've got the good one that is loaded...) and find this line
mysqli.default_port = 3306
change for
mysqli.default_port = 80
Restart all services
Go to localhost/phpmyadmin -> won't work
Reopen the php.ini file and retype this
mysqli.default_port = 3306
Restart all services
Worked for me.
For me worked this, after searching all logs/internet/every non-normal things.
You have to register dl by:
Through application:
WAMP -> PHP settings -> enable dl
or
# php.ini #
; Whether or not to enable the dl() function. The dl() function does NOT work
; properly in multithreaded servers, such as IIS or Zeus, and is automatically
; disabled on them.
; http://php.net/enable-dl
enable_dl = On
I have just installed WampServer, and faced same problem. I have found solution, that works for me, it is ridiculously simple.
Disable PHP extension php_mysqli.
Restart WampServer, visit local phpmyadmin.
Enable php_mysqli back.
Repeat step 2.
After few page refreshes, remaining errors plates (about MySQL and sqli) had gone.
i tried hard by
installing the wamp again and again,
by checking the php.ini file,
by restarting the machine,
by replacing the index.php file,
but none works.
then i go to the wamp/temp and deleted all files and it works fine now.
I had path variable in windows set to some random version of php.
The fix was to update it and set it to the folder within my wampserver installation:
C:\wamp64\bin\php\php5.6.38
Then I realized this is wrong also for my specific case, and I should actually be running the script from within vagrant. Live and learn.
I had this issue because of a different reason:
Check the PHP Error Log(Get from the Wamp Tray -> PHP -> PHP Error Log.
I had a syntax error in the php.ini file while I was editing the file.
Check the log and clear the error. This will open your PhpMyAdmin properly.
Check your phpForApache.ini file's extensions. This file should be same as your php.ini file.