Hi,
I'm new to Linux having used Windows for years, now trying to switch over, using Mint 8 Helena. I've installed LAMP server via the Terminal using Dataman's very helpful tutorial. Apache works fine, serves existing HTML websites. I can't find any menu items to control Apache, MySQL, PHP or PHPMyAdmin - how do I a) invoke PHPMyAdmin without a menu item and b) get these 4 items into the main menu? I would have installed LAMP via the package manager but the option wasn't available. Any help would be appreciated!
Many thanks,
Nigel.
LAMP and PHPMyAdmin
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Re: LAMP and PHPMyAdmin
Nigel,
Did you install phpMyAdmin (it's in the repositories .. I think)?
If so you will need to point your browser to the (I think) index.php for phpMyAdmin as in this example
Hope this helps get you started.
I'm at work right now and Windows-disadvantged so I'm doing this from failing memory
-DataMan
Did you install phpMyAdmin (it's in the repositories .. I think)?
If so you will need to point your browser to the (I think) index.php for phpMyAdmin as in this example
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http://localhost/phpmyadmin/index.php
I'm at work right now and Windows-disadvantged so I'm doing this from failing memory
-DataMan
Re: LAMP and PHPMyAdmin
Hi,
Many thanks for the prompt response! I had installed phpMyAdmin via the repositories, and I can get the login page exactly as you suggest, http://localhost/phpmyadmin/index.php. There I run into another problem - I can't log in. Where are the PHP files located? I have looked in /var/www/ and they don't appear to be there, and I'm not familiar enough with the Linux file system to know where to look. Sorry to appear a bit stupid!
many thanks,
Nigel.
Many thanks for the prompt response! I had installed phpMyAdmin via the repositories, and I can get the login page exactly as you suggest, http://localhost/phpmyadmin/index.php. There I run into another problem - I can't log in. Where are the PHP files located? I have looked in /var/www/ and they don't appear to be there, and I'm not familiar enough with the Linux file system to know where to look. Sorry to appear a bit stupid!
many thanks,
Nigel.
Re: LAMP and PHPMyAdmin
Aw rats, you're right! I don't use the phpMyAdmin from the repositories. I now remember that they're putting a symbolic link to another directory. Not sure, but I'd start probing at maybe /etc/Apache2 or /etc/php5.
As an option, you could easily download directly from phpMyAdmin and install into the /var/www area.
-DataMan
As an option, you could easily download directly from phpMyAdmin and install into the /var/www area.
-DataMan
Re: LAMP and PHPMyAdmin
When you installed MySQL, you should have been prompted for a root user password. You can log into PHPMyAdmin with the user `root` and whatever password you chose when setting up MySQL.
Restarting Apache and MySQL are pretty easy on the terminal:
You can put either of those commands into a script like this:
Save it as something like restart-mysql.sh, make it executable for your user, then attach that to a launcher in the menu or on a panel. If you need clearer, more detailed instructions on how to do that, let me know.
Restarting Apache and MySQL are pretty easy on the terminal:
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sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
sudo /etc/init.d/mysql restart
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#!/bin/bash
sudo /etc/init.d/mysql restart
Re: LAMP and PHPMyAdmin
Doesn't he have to set the blowfish variable in the phpMyAdmin config file first? Been a while since I was cracking a new install of phpMyAdmin so I might be on the wrong path with this but....You can log into PHPMyAdmin with the user `root` and whatever password you chose when setting up MySQL
-DataMan