phpMyAdmin error on login screen - cannot login

[umuzidan]

Using a clean, new install of Vesta CP on Centos 6, after I create a new DB and user, I go to phpMyAdmin and am presented with this error:

Warning in ./libraries/session.inc.php#101
session_start(): open(/var/lib/php/session/sess_281cetphm911n7edbnnrt2oa12t3esvi, O_RDWR) failed: Permission denied (13)

Backtrace

./libraries/session.inc.php#101: session_start()
./libraries/common.inc.php#349: require(./libraries/session.inc.php)
./index.php#12: require_once(./libraries/common.inc.php)
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I cannot login using the new credentials.

Any suggestions?

[skurudo]

How you try to login in phpmyadmin: domain name / ip ?
What's permission/owner on those files?

PS: I don't see that problem on CentOS 6. Sad, but this is local, sorry.

[umuzidan]

I login to Vesta CP using internal IP and port 8083. When I visit the DB tab, I click the link to open that "DB" in phpMyAdmin. This opens phpMyAdmin using the internal IP running on port 80. I use the username "admin_<dbuser>".

[umuzidan]

Ok this gets even weirder.

I decided to start over from scratch.

1. Create new VM for CentOS 6
2. Install VMware Tools
3. Install Vesta CP
4. Login and go directly to phpMyAdmin - same exact error
5. Some online searching indicated that I should uncomment "session.save.path" from php.ini - I did that and rebooted - still same error
6. New discovery, when visiting https://vestacpIPaddress:8083 - pages loges fine. When visiting http://vestaIPaddress/phpMyAdmin - page returns HTTP 500 Internal Server error. When I visit http://publicVestaIPaddress/phpMyAdmin - Page load correctly and I'm presented with the error I described at the beginning of this ticket.

Seriously, WTF is going on?? I'm driving myself crazy. I've installed Vesta CP many times now and never once presented with this error.

[skurudo]

Seriously, WTF is going on?? I'm driving myself crazy. I've installed Vesta CP many times now and never once presented with this error.

Yep, I don't see this error too. Do you installed apc or xcache may be?
What's you mean publicvestaip / vestaipaddress - it's somehow diffetent?

[umuzidan]

Public Vesta IP is the NATed IP, accessible by the public. Internal Vesta IP is the internal LAN IP of the server itself. No, I don't have those installed.

[skurudo]

What's about your ip-listen settings in your httpd?

[umuzidan]

What's about your ip-listen settings in your httpd?

My listen IPs are only the internal LAN IP. I left the NAT blank. I'm trying to access it directly on the internal LAN. I have been unsuccessful in loading phpMyAdmin from localhost and other clients on the same LAN. I have created additional website and can successfully visit their webpages on port 80, but when I add phpmyadmin after the website name, it already returns blanks. I have checked the IPs listed at these locations. viewtopic.php?f=11&t=7013

Again:
1. When visiting "http://<internalip>/phpmyadmin" from the localhost, the page ALWAYS returns blank
2. When visiting "http://<internalip>/phpmyadmin" from another client on the same LAN, the page loads but phpMyAdmin presents the error pasted in the original post.

Either way, I can't access phpMyAdmin. I have rebuilt this OS and re-installed VCP about 10 times now with all different configurations.

[umuzidan]

Please help. I'm completely stumped.

[poxin]

This is happening to me as well when it has worked before. Completely wiped the OS, reinstalled CentOS6, same error with phpmyadmin.

Edit: looks like chmod 777 to /var/lib/php/session may have done the trick. phpMyAdmin now opens, appears there is another error inside: The configuration file now needs a secret passphrase (blowfish_secret).

Looks like something must have changed along the line, never got these errors before.