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Cannot start session without errors in phpMyAdmin

  • IT

A quick one, I recently received the message Cannot start session without errors in phpMyAdmin when trying to logon

 

Usually when you get this message it’s normally because of your browse cache, or an issue with the session.save_path variable in the PHP.ini configuration file

 

I decided to check the session save path first and it turned out after I had a problem with my PHP configuration. I updated PHP but forgot to copy over the directories

 

My PHP was pointing to a /tmp folder. Once I created this, jobs a good un. Remember this in next time