title: phpMyAdmin errors while accessing config.inc.php and blowfish_secret.inc.php
body: <p>i'm running phpMyAdmin 4.6.6deb5 on the following configuration:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Ubuntu Server 18.04.3 </li>
  <li>nginx/1.17.9 </li>
  <li>7.2.24-0ubuntu0.18.04.3 </li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>phpMyAdmin seems to work, but there's this red error message that says something about the blowfish secret. Somehow there's no way to get rid of it. The error-log contains the following entries:</p>
  
  <pre><code>2020/03/22 21:46:30 [error] 26664#26664: *53 FastCGI sent in stderr: "PHP message: phpmyadmin: Failed to load /var/lib/phpmyadmin/blowfish_secret.inc.php Check group www-data has read access and open_basedir restrictions.
  PHP message: phpmyadmin: Failed to load /var/lib/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php Check group www-data has read access and open_basedir restrictions" while reading response header from upstream, client: 87.147.18.48, server: ***, request: "GET /phpmyadmin/js/get_image.js.php?theme=pmahomme&amp;v=4.6.6deb5 HTTP/2.0", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock:", host: "***
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Both, the folder and the files, are assigned to www-data. I've also assigned the following permissions:</p>
  
  <pre><code># chmod 755 /var/lib/phpmyadmin
  # chmod 664 /var/lib/phpmyadmin/blowfish_secret.inc.php 
  # chmod 664 /var/lib/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Doesn't work... </p>
  
  <p>What seems strange to me is the fact that the config.inc.php is empty and the blowfish_seceret.inc.php looks like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
  $cfg['blowfish_secret'] = 'j(&lt;purKyJl&gt;5D]yzlPoKFLNfH9es6.-T';
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It seems like both files are broken. Could anybody tell me where I can find right files? I know that there are several config.inc.php files in different folders, some of them including the line for the blowfish_secret, but I don't know which of them is the right one to copy to /var/lib/phpmyadmin.</p>
  
  <p>I've found similar issues while searchig on stackoverflow and other forums, but none of the suggested solutions worked for me.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance</p>
  
  <p>Best Regards, Boris</p>