22.04 Upgrade Blank phpmyadmin page

The title says it all, I've looked through the various threads here in the forums but none seem to fix the issue.
It seems from searching is that the problem could be linked to php 8 and the version of phpmyadmin

I can't seem to find a suitable tutorial to upgrade phpmyadmin in the perfect server environment.

Before upgrade my installation was Perfect Server Ubuntu 20.04, apache etc.
Hoping I don't have to do a clean installation

 

It wasn't until I put the repo in early this morning, after that and also trying your method for updating it still only shows as

Code:

[email protected]:~# dpkg-query -W -f '${version}\n' phpmyadmin
4:5.1.4+dfsg1-2+jammy1

So it seems the repo has not been updated for a while, the surrent version is apparently
phpMyAdmin 5.2.0

 

What shows

Code:

apt policy phpmyadmin

 

if @Th0m's method doesn't work for you, you can try updating phpmyadmin manually.

https://forum.howtoforge.com/threads/solved-update-phpmyadmin-and-mysql-debian-10.83459/#post-397419
just change the version numbers to be 5.2.0

i've done it a few times, so i know it works.

 

Thanks - I'll give it a shot

 

Looks like something has changed after 4.9.2
But it Worked!
You may wish to update your tutorial to reflect the changes as shown below.

Attached is the file in question and neither of those variables are in the php file

PHP:

<?php
/**
 * File for vendor customization, you can change here paths or some behaviour,
 * which vendors such as Linux distributions might want to change.
 *
 * For changing this file you should know what you are doing. For this reason
 * options here are not part of normal configuration.
 */

declare(strict_types=1);

if (! defined('PHPMYADMIN')) {
    exit;
}

return [
    /**
     * Path to vendor autoload file. Useful when you want to have vendor dependencies somewhere else.
     */
    'autoloadFile' => ROOT_PATH . 'vendor' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'autoload.php',

    /**
     * Directory where cache files are stored.
     */
    'tempDir' => ROOT_PATH . 'tmp' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR,

    /**
     * Path to changelog file, can be gzip compressed.
     * Useful when you want to have documentation somewhere else, e.g. /usr/share/doc.
     */
    'changeLogFile' => ROOT_PATH . 'ChangeLog',

    /**
     * Path to license file. Useful when you want to have documentation somewhere else, e.g. /usr/share/doc.
     */
    'licenseFile' => ROOT_PATH . 'LICENSE',

    /**
     * Directory where SQL scripts to create/upgrade configuration storage reside.
     */
    'sqlDir' => ROOT_PATH . 'sql' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR,

    /**
     * Filename of a configuration file.
     */
    'configFile' => ROOT_PATH . 'config.inc.php',

    /**
     * Filename of custom header file.
     */
    'customHeaderFile' => ROOT_PATH . 'config.header.inc.php',

    /**
     * Filename of custom footer file.
     */
    'customFooterFile' => ROOT_PATH . 'config.footer.inc.php',

    /**
     * Default value for check for version upgrades.
     */
    'versionCheckDefault' => true,

    /**
     * Path to files with compiled locales (*.mo)
     */
    'localePath' => ROOT_PATH . 'locale' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR,

    /**
     * Define the cache directory for routing cache and other cache files
     */
    'cacheDir' => ROOT_PATH . 'libraries' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'cache' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR,

    /**
     * Suffix to add to the phpMyAdmin version
     */
    'versionSuffix' => '',
];


 

Just a couple of more notes :-
The upgrade does not create the config file, I had to copy and rename

also it seems this method doesn't generate a temp file either and shows a warning in the phpmyadmin gui

I created that directory, CHMOD 775, but I can't seem to get rid of the warning

 

edit /usr/share/phpmyadmin/libraries/vendor_config.php

Code:

'tempDir' => '/tmp/'
'configFile' => '/etc/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php',

also, i already had in /etc/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php:

Code:

// Load secret generated on postinst
if (check_file_access('/var/lib/phpmyadmin/blowfish_secret.inc.php')) {
    require('/var/lib/phpmyadmin/blowfish_secret.inc.php');
}

and /var/lib/phpmyadmin/blowfish_secret_inc.php already contained:

Code:

<?php
$cfg['blowfish_secret'] = '<redacted>';

the blowfish config may have been added during an earlier manual update to 5.0.1.. i know i never had to change anything for that to go up to 5.2.0

 

Hi everyone,

phpMyAdmin team member here, you will find on the wiki page why there is a blank screen and how to fix it: github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/wiki/DebianUbuntu/#known-issues

I am the one responsible for the Debian/Ubuntu packaging but unfortunately someone on the Ubuntu team made a mistake that does this white screen, learn more about this here: github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/issues/17523#issuecomment-1139443175

Or the solution may be to apply this patch for PHP 8 support: github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/issues/17585#issuecomment-1196750348

Or more simply to use the php version shipped with your Ubuntu setup and not an older one (reason for the white screen)

This is why if you use the zip from the phpMyAdmin website there is no error because all the dependencies are bundled into the zip and so the mistake of the Ubuntu team on the symfony dependency is not there.

Let me know if it also works?

 

Thanks - all seems good now.

 

Sorry, I'm confused. You state that we should search the file for those vars and change them, then state that neither vars are found in the file. Are you saying to just add them to the beginning of the file?

 

things change over time.. when i originally wrote instructions for upgrading phpmyadmin, it was still using the 4.8 / 4.9 versions.
you just need to look at what's actually there now and adjust accordingly.

 

Agreed that is quite an "old" guide. I remember I followed Debian PST to change my PMA install from apt to manual in my ISPConfig Ubuntu server. Thereafter I just used @Th0m script to keep my PMA updated. So far it has been working flawlessly even after recent upgrade to Ubuntu Jammy 22.04.

 

Hi everyone,
The `jammy` and `focal` PPA variants are not up to date with 5.2.1.
See: https:// github.com /phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/wiki/DebianUbuntu#install