phpMyAdmin Problem

[Jackson]

I followed the directions for installing phpMyAdmin at http://rimuhosting.com/howto/phpmyadmin.jsp and received this error:


The $cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri'] directive MUST be set in your configuration file!
The mbstring PHP extension was not found and you seem to be using a multibyte charset. Without the mbstring extension phpMyAdmin is unable to split strings correctly and it may result in unexpected results.

I edited the config.inc.php file in /var/www/html/phpMyAdmin, filling in the line:
$cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri'] = 'http://www.mydomain.com/phpMyAdmin/';

The path seems all screwed up though (no images!), and I'm still getting the "split strings" error. Any ideas?

Thanks!

[jstritar]

I am also getting the mbstring errors.

[jstritar]

I this is because the mysql was compiled with a character set of utf8 rather iso-8859-1. Anyone know how can I change it to iso-8859-1?

[jstritar]

Fixed it - you need to:
apt-get install php-mbstring
Then either click the "apply changes" button for apache in webadmin, or restart apache.

[Jackson]

Thanks, that worked great!

[shawnpetersonrec]

Hi
I am new to the PHP and I am have the same problem. I have been trying this for two days. I am using red-hat9 Linux core 2. I am also running out of time could some one help. I was happy about you mentioning this worked but not sure what this "apt-get install php-mbstring" is installing and where to use it. :confused:

I have opened the php.ini file but I could not find nay php_mbstring.so file. I also changed the .dll to .so based on the comments written above but could not solve this error for phpMyAdmin. This is above was mentioned in some web sites but they say place it in the right place but note sure which is the right place.

Does nay one have any idea where the php_mbstring.so is located on Linux.
:confused:

I am presently in this environment
RedHat Linux 9
PHP 4.4.0
MySql 4.1.2
Using a Bash Shell