PhpMyAdmin showing error after clean installation

[choutman]

Hi,

Today I ran into an error after installing phpmyadmin using this ansible role. The error:

Error during session start; please check your PHP and/or webserver log file and configure your PHP installation properly. Also ensure that cookies are enabled in your browser.

session_start(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/tmp) is not within the allowed path(s): (/usr/share/phpmyadmin/:/etc/phpmyadmin/:/var/lib/phpmyadmin/:/usr/share/php/php-gettext/:/usr/share/php/php-php-gettext/:/usr/share/javascript/:/usr/share/php/tcpdf/:/usr/share/doc/phpmyadmin/:/usr/share/php/phpseclib/:/usr/share/php/PhpMyAdmin/:/usr/share/php/Symfony/:/usr/share/php/Twig/:/usr/share/php/Twig-Extensions/:/usr/share/php/ReCaptcha/:/usr/share/php/Psr/Container/:/usr/share/php/Psr/Cache/:/usr/share/php/Psr/Log/:/usr/share/php/Psr/SimpleCache/)

session_start(): Failed to initialize storage module: files (path: )

Used versions: OS: Ubuntu 20.04 Ansible: 2.10.2

I also used the following roles: roles:

• geerlingguy.mysql
• geerlingguy.apache
• geerlingguy.php
• geerlingguy.phpmyadmin

I was able to fix the issue with the following tasks:

- name: check phpmyadmin is fixed
      command:
        cmd: "grep -e 'php_admin_value open_basedir .*:/tmp/' /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf"
      register: isPhpMyAdminFixed
      ignore_errors: true
    - name: fix phpmyadmin installation
      lineinfile:
        path: "/etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf"
        state: present
        regexp: 'php_admin_value open_basedir (.*)'
        line: '\tphp_admin_value open_basedir \1:/tmp/'
        backrefs: yes
      when: isPhpMyAdminFixed.failed

It has been a while since I used Ansible, so I don't know if this is the proper way to fix this issue. But at least it fixed my issue.

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