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I am having some trouble getting into phpmyadmin when trying to login. The only error that comes up is "Cookies must be enabled past this point"

I have checked my browser setting to allow cookies. Our server is running on Ubuntu.

Would anyone have any suggestion onto where to begin looking for solution to this problem.

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How about you try a different web browser? – Jimmy Apr 1 '10 at 11:00

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$cfg['blowfish_secret'] = 'Your blowfish secret here'; /* YOU MUST FILL IN THIS FOR COOKIE AUTH! */

HTH

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That message is displayed if you are using cookie based authentication before you are authenticated and does not mean your credentials are incorrect.

My suggestion of where to start looking is to check your log in credentials are correct by connecting to MySQL with the MySQL client.

mysql -u <username> -p

and enter the password when prompted.

If you have the correct username and password, then you could try changing the authentication method used by phpMyAdmin to http authentication which will allow you to log in without using cookies.

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Hi Richard, I will this a go and let you know how i went. Thanks for the reply. – freddy6 Apr 7 '10 at 3:33
Hey freddy6, any luck with this yet? – Richard Holloway Apr 12 '10 at 21:25
Hi Richard, i can log into the mysql database fine from command line, I am just trying to find out how to change the authentication method to http authentication. – freddy6 Apr 14 '10 at 0:53
In a file called config.inc.php . You are looking to change the line to look lke this: $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'http'; – Richard Holloway Apr 15 '10 at 11:32
freddy6, did you ever get this working? – Richard Holloway Aug 13 '10 at 23:38
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go to mozilla forefox tools->Options->privacy and then check the option accept cookies from sites and then retry to login into phpmyadmin.

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I had this same issue. It turns out that virtual machine I was running on was out of disk space. Use the command df -h to determine your disk space and clear up some space.

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