Temp Dir is not accessible phpmyadmin

Question

Upon trying to establish a connection with phpMyAdmin Im getting the error:

The $cfg['TempDir'] (./tmp/) is not accessible. phpMyAdmin is not able to cache templates and will be slow because of this.

I have looked on here at some solutions and I am still confused.

Do I need to create a new tmp folder within phpmyadmin and make it executable. Does a tmp folder need to be nested in xamppfiles/share

How do I resolve this.

Answer 1

I was having this same issue on update to phpMyAdmin 4.8.0.1. Without changing permissions or adding any folders, you should open your $PMA-DIR/config.inc.php and edit the following section:

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

Add $cfg['TempDir'] = '/tmp'; to the file. I made mine look like this:

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

If you already had this entry in your config.inc.php then make sure that the entry is correct.

Refresh phpMyAdmin in the browser and the error should be cleared.

Answer 2

do mkdir tmp && chmod 777 tmp inside your phpmyadmin dir

then update config.inc.php file add

$cfg['TempDir'] = 'tmp';