PHPMyAdmin produces not output if mysqli is missing

[megabert]

Description

PHPMyAdmin does not generate any output (CLI or browser). So no hint what is wrong when the mysqli extension is missing.

To Reproduce

Just call PHPMyAdmin in browser or from commandline.

Expected behavior

The program states that mysqli extension (or whatever else) is missing via the error log or via stderr.

Server configuration

Server 1:

• Operating system: Ubuntu 22.04
• Web server: apache 2.4.52
• PHP version: 8.1.2-1ubuntu2.8
• phpMyAdmin version: 5.2.0

Server 2:

• Operating system: Ubuntu 20.04
• Web server: 2.4.41-4ubuntu3.12
• PHP version: 7.4.3-4ubuntu2.15
• phpMyAdmin version: 5.2.0

Client configuration

• Browser: firefox 106.0.5
• Operating system: Debian 11.5

[ibennetch]

Thanks for the report. We will have to look in to this — it used to be that we would show a clear error message at the login window. Perhaps something got changed along the way.

[megabert]

Here's a package list for php/apache packages on the system:

# dpkg -l|grep -iE "(php|apache)" | cut -c1-70
ii  apache2                               2.4.52-1ubuntu4.1           
ii  apache2-bin                           2.4.52-1ubuntu4.1           
ii  apache2-data                          2.4.52-1ubuntu4.1           
ii  apache2-utils                         2.4.52-1ubuntu4.1           
ii  libapache2-mod-php8.1                 8.1.2-1ubuntu2.8            
ii  libapr1:amd64                         1.7.0-8build1               
ii  libaprutil1:amd64                     1.6.1-5ubuntu4              
ii  libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3:amd64         1.6.1-5ubuntu4              
ii  libaprutil1-ldap:amd64                1.6.1-5ubuntu4              
ii  php-common                            2:92ubuntu1                 
ii  php8.1                                8.1.2-1ubuntu2.8            
ii  php8.1-cli                            8.1.2-1ubuntu2.8            
ii  php8.1-common                         8.1.2-1ubuntu2.8            
ii  php8.1-curl                           8.1.2-1ubuntu2.8            
rc  php8.1-mysql                          8.1.2-1ubuntu2.8            
ii  php8.1-opcache                        8.1.2-1ubuntu2.8            
ii  php8.1-readline                       8.1.2-1ubuntu2.8            
ii  php8.1-xml                            8.1.2-1ubuntu2.8  

[williamdes]

Hi!
I think this is a duplicate of #17527
You should try the latest 5.2 version in development (phpMyAdmin 5.2+snapshot) also available as a non official docker image and let us know

[megabert]

Verified. Problem fixed in phpMyAdmin 5.2+snapshot : Daily snapshot, generated 2022-11-13, from Git commit 482e7c2a2130ca4c7f3b586891d8f55f78182d06.

[williamdes]

Duplicate of #17527

[ibennetch]

Great, thank you for the report and for testing the fix!