While trying to restore a database through phpmyadmin, following error occurs:

#1153 – Got a packet bigger than ‘max_allowed_packet’ bytes

Solution :

This error occurs if the packet size is more than the default value OR the value defined in the my.cnf file.
my.cnf might be blank on a cPanel server by default. You can simply add the variable to it or increase the value if it already exists.

For example,

max_allowed_packet = 2097152

How to login to PHPMyAdmin directly (without logging in to the cPanel interface) ?

Solution :

This can be achieved by the following steps :

First, download and untar the latest version in to your public_html folder.

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/phpmyadmin/phpMyAdmin/2.11.9.5/phpMyAdmin-2.11.9.5-english.tar.gz
tar -zxvf phpMyAdmin-2.11.9.5-english.tar.gz
cd phpMyAdmin-2.11.9.5-english
mv phpMyAdmin-2.11.9.5-english phpMyAdmin

Then, create a file named config.inc.php and put the following entries in it .

vi config.inc.php
———

$i=0;
$i++;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'example_test'; //database username
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = 'qazplm123'; // use here your password
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config';
?>
———-

Now, you would be able to access it as http://domainname.com/phpmyadmin

For more details on this , please refer this.

While trying to import a database via PhpMyAdmin , following error occurred :

#1153 – Got a packet bigger than ‘max_allowed_packet’ bytes

Fix:

Get into the file /etc/my.cnf
Change the following to the required value :

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max_allowed_packet = 16M
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This should resolve the issue.

The phpMyadmin errror “#2002 – The server is not responding (or the local MySQL server’s socket is not correctly configured)”

Fix :

1.First check whether mysql is working in the server or not.

2. Check whether there is a symbolic link from mysql.sock to /tmp. If not, create a symlink between /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock and /tmp/mysql.sock.
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ln -s /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock /tmp/mysql.sock
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3. If this doesn’t fix the issue check the file: /usr/local/cPanel/base/3rdparty/phpMyAdmin/config.inc.php and make sure the entries are like this:
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$cfg['Servers'][$i]['socket'] = ‘/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock’;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type'] = ‘socket’;