[TYPO3] phpmyadmin (3.2.0) 'The page isn't redirecting properly'

[Andreas Kundoch]

Hi Elijah,

> After the security bulletin I tried upgrading a few of my installations
> but now when I try to open up phpmyadmin I get an error in firefox: 
> 
> " The page isn't redirecting properly. Firefox has detected that the
> server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will
> never complete.  
> This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to accept
> cookies. "
> 
> I just upgraded in multiple servers (typo3 4.1.1, 4.2) with the same
> results. Anyone know what is causing this problem? It used to work in
> the earlier versions...

did you already try the suggested solution for this issue? It's in the 
manual section »Known problems«:

Redirect Problems in pMA

Some users reported permanent redirects (infinite loop) in pMA versions 
 > 3.0.0 when pMA tries to authenticate the user. Login and 
authentication have been switched to Signon in 3.0.0 and later. In our 
tests this only happened if there was a problem with the cookies (used 
for signon) of pMA.

Solution: In our tests the solution was to log out of the TYPO3 Backend 
and remove *all* cookies for *this particular host* (pMA, TYPO3 BE, 
Session Cookies).


Regards,
Andreas