PhpMyAdmin error with config file

Question

Errors are:

The phpMyAdmin configuration storage is not completely configured, some extended features have been deactivated. To find out why click here.
Server running with Suhosin. Please refer to documentation for possible issues.

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pmadb'] ... OK

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['relation'] ... not OK [ Documentation ]
General relation features: Disabled

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_info'] ... not OK [ Documentation ]
Display Features: Disabled

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_coords'] ... not OK [ Documentation ]

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pdf_pages'] ... not OK [ Documentation ]
Creation of PDFs: Disabled

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['column_info'] ...not OK [ Documentation ]
Displaying Column Comments: Disabled
Browser transformation: Disabled

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['bookmarktable'] ... not OK [ Documentation ]
Bookmarked SQL query: Disabled

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['history'] ...not OK [ Documentation ]
SQL history: Disabled

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['designer_coords'] ... not OK [ Documentation ]
Designer: Disabled

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['tracking'] ... not OK [ Documentation ]
Tracking: Disabled

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['userconfig'] ... not OK [ Documentation ]
User preferences: Disabled

My config.inc.php file is as follows:

/* vim: set expandtab sw=4 ts=4 sts=4: */
/**
 * phpMyAdmin sample configuration, you can use it as base for
 * manual configuration. For easier setup you can use setup/
 *
 * All directives are explained in Documentation.html and on phpMyAdmin
 * wiki <http://wiki.phpmyadmin.net>.
 *
 * @package phpMyAdmin
 */

/*
 * This is needed for cookie based authentication to encrypt password in
 * cookie
 */
$cfg['blowfish_secret'] = 'myblowfishpass';

/*
 * Servers configuration
 */
$i = 0;

/*
 * First server
 */
$i++;
/* Authentication type */
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'cookie';
/* Server parameters */
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'localhost';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type'] = 'tcp';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['compress'] = false;
/* Select mysql if your server does not have mysqli */
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension'] = 'mysqli';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] = false;

/*
 * phpMyAdmin configuration storage settings.
 */

/* User used to manipulate with storage */
 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['controluser'] = 'dave1';
 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['controlpass'] = 'mypassword';

/* Storage database and tables */
 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['pmadb'] = 'wordpress_db'; //the name of my db table
 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['bookmarktable'] = 'pma_bookmark'; //does the pma_ need to change to dave1_?
 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['relation'] = 'pma_relation';
 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_info'] = 'pma_table_info';
 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_coords'] = 'pma_table_coords';
 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['pdf_pages'] = 'pma_pdf_pages';
 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['column_info'] = 'pma_column_info';
 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['history'] = 'pma_history';
 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['tracking'] = 'pma_tracking';
 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['designer_coords'] = 'pma_designer_coords';
 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['userconfig'] = 'pma_userconfig';
/* Contrib / Swekey authentication */
 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_swekey_config'] = '/etc/swekey-pma.conf';

/*
 * End of servers configuration
 */

/*
 * Directories for saving/loading files from server
 */
$cfg['UploadDir'] = '';
$cfg['SaveDir'] = '';

/**
 * Defines whether a user should be displayed a "show all (records)"
 * button in browse mode or not.
 * default = false
 */
  $cfg['ShowAll'] = true;

/**
 * Number of rows displayed when browsing a result set. If the result
 * set contains more rows, "Previous" and "Next".
 * default = 30
 */
  $cfg['MaxRows'] = 50;

/**
 * Use graphically less intense menu tabs
 * default = false
 */
//$cfg['LightTabs'] = true;

/**
 * disallow editing of binary fields
 * valid values are:
 *   false  allow editing
 *   'blob' allow editing except for BLOB fields
 *   'all'  disallow editing
 * default = blob
 */
//$cfg['ProtectBinary'] = 'false';

/**
 * Default language to use, if not browser-defined or user-defined
 * (you find all languages in the locale folder)
 * uncomment the desired line:
 * default = 'en'
 */
  $cfg['DefaultLang'] = 'en';
//$cfg['DefaultLang'] = 'de';

/**
 * default display direction (horizontal|vertical|horizontalflipped)
 */
//$cfg['DefaultDisplay'] = 'vertical';


/**
 * How many columns should be used for table display of a database?
 * (a value larger than 1 results in some information being hidden)
 * default = 1
 */
//$cfg['PropertiesNumColumns'] = 2;

/**
 * Set to true if you want DB-based query history.If false, this utilizes
 * JS-routines to display query history (lost by window close)
 *
 * This requires configuration storage enabled, see above.
 * default = false
 */
//$cfg['QueryHistoryDB'] = true;

/**
 * When using DB-based query history, how many entries should be kept?
 *
 * default = 25
 */
//$cfg['QueryHistoryMax'] = 100;

/*
 * You can find more configuration options in Documentation.html
 * or here: http://wiki.phpmyadmin.net/pma/Config
 */

Answer 1

I too had this same problem. clearing cookies and cache worked for me. try it

Answer 2

If you are using "create_tables.sql" to create the database and tables, change the tables name pma__ to pma_ . (change 2 underscore to 1 underscore)

Or change the tables name in "config.inc.php", pma_ to pma__ (change 1 underscore to 2 underscore).
For example, pma_bookmark to pma__bookmark

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pmadb'] = 'phpmyadmin';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['bookmarktable'] = 'pma__bookmark';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['relation'] = 'pma__relation';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_info'] = 'pma__table_info';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_coords'] = 'pma__table_coords';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pdf_pages'] = 'pma__pdf_pages';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['column_info'] = 'pma__column_info';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['history'] = 'pma__history';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['tracking'] = 'pma__tracking';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['designer_coords'] = 'pma__designer_coords';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['userconfig'] = 'pma__userconfig';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['recent'] = 'pma__recent';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_uiprefs'] = 'pma__table_uiprefs';

Answer 3

VestaCP Team made and successfully tested error fixer for phpMyAdmin (no more annoying message "The phpMyAdmin configuration storage is not completely configured, some extended features have been deactivated"). We hope that fix will be useful and will help users.

Page on Github: https://github.com/skurudo/phpmyadmin-fixer

What the script does:

• works from user root;
• changes inside /etc/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php, fixes value;
• makes a backup of /etc/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php in /root folder; adds in a mysql pma user / and the table phpmyadmin (if the user "pma" or the table "phpmyadmin" already exists, the script will delete those!);
• download and add table for database phpmyadmin;
• clean temp files, leftover pma.txt (contains password for pma@localhost) and old config;

Answer 4

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root'; //mysql username here
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = 'password'; //mysql password here

Try adding the above configuration lines after $cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type'] = 'tcp';

If these also doesn't work then try with a fresh configuration file, may be by copying config.sample.inc.php. Do ensure that it has the above mentioned configuration lines. Check that if it works fine and then start making changes to it step by step, if any changes are to be made..

Please note that the username and password you provide should be able to login you from mysql command prompt..