Phpmyadmin is the most widely used tool for managing Mysql database. During my installation I faced difficulty in importing sql files as always it gave me ‘File cannot be read’ error.
Following steps helped to solve the issue.
For PHP Installaion, I made the following changes
Created a new folder c:/php_tmp Right click and under permissions gave all users write access
Edited php.ini file to
upload_tmp_dir = 'c:/php_tmp'Installing PhpMyadmin
1) Download phpmyadmin and set it as a website on IIS
2) Rename config.sample.inc.php as config.inc.php and edit following for the lines so that we will be able to import sql files
$cfg['UploadDir'] = 'uploads'; $cfg['SaveDir'] = 'save';
3) Create two folders uploads and save under the root of phpmyadmin folder for e.g c:/web/phpmyadmin/
4) Right click on the folders and give write permissions for ‘Domain/users’.
5) You are good to go.
Errors
If still you face issue, check if you have set open_basedir in php.ini. If defined it limits PHP read/write rights to specified path and its subdirectories. Ensure that upload_tmp_dir is inside this path.