To be able to access your database more easily you could download
something called phpMyAdmin this is a set of php files that enables you
to administrate your database easily.
To set up the phpMyAdmin tool on you website you must do the following
steps:
- First download a .zip or .tar file.
- Extract the contents from the file, using WinZip etc.
- Edit the config.inc.php3 file.
- Upload the files to a seperate directory on your website.
- Password protect your directory.
The details for these processes are given bellow.
1. Go to the internet site where you can download the phpMyAdmin
tool. You could
do that by clicking here.
2. Download the phpMyAdmin tool from the bottom of the screen
You could either download the .tar or .zip file. (Its recommended that
Windows users, download the .zip file).
You can download WinZip 8.0 for free by clicking
here
3. Once you have downloaded the file. Unzip it using WinZip or
any way you prefer. The files will then be placed into a directory
called 'phpMyAdmin'. Within this directory there is a file called
'config.inc.php3'.
4. Open the file called 'config.inc.php3' using Notepad or
any other text editor. It looks something like the following:
config.inc.php3
<?php
/* $Id: config.inc.php3,v 1.151 2002/11/08 22:20:22 robbat2 Exp $ */
// vim: expandtab sw=4 ts=4 sts=4:
/**
* phpMyAdmin Configuration File
*
* All directives are explained in Documentation.html
*/
/**
* Sets the php error reporting - Please do not change this line!
*/
if (!isset($old_error_reporting)) {
error_reporting(E_ALL);
@ini_set('display_errors', '1');
}
/**
* Your phpMyAdmin url
*
* Complete the variable below with the full url ie
* http://www.your_web.net/path_to_your_phpMyAdmin_directory/
*
* It must contain characters that are valid for a URL, and the path is
* case sensitive on some Web servers, for example Unix-based servers.
*
* In most cases you can leave this variable empty, as the correct value
* will be detected automatically. However, we recommend that you do
* test to see that the auto-detection code works in your system. A good
* test is to browse a table, then edit a row and save it. There will be
* an error message if phpMyAdmin cannot auto-detect the correct value.
*
* If the auto-detection code does work properly, you can set to TRUE the
* $cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri_DisableWarning'] variable below.
*/
$cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri'] = '';
/**
* Disable the default warning about $cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri'] not being set
* You should use this if and ONLY if the PmaAbsoluteUri auto-detection
* works perfectly.
*/
$cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri_DisableWarning'] = FALSE;
/**
* Disable the default warning that is displayed on the DB Details Structure page if
* any of the required Tables for the relationfeatures could not be found
*/
$cfg['PmaNoRelation_DisableWarning'] = FALSE;
/**
* Server(s) configuration
*/
$i = 0;
// The $cfg['Servers'] array starts with $cfg['Servers'][1]. Do not use $cfg['Servers'][0].
// You can disable a server config entry by setting host to ''.
$i++;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'localhost'; // MySQL hostname
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['port'] = ''; // MySQL port - leave blank for default port
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['socket'] = ''; // Path to the socket - leave blank for default socket
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type'] = 'tcp'; // How to connect to MySQL server ('tcp' or 'socket')
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controluser'] = ''; // MySQL control user settings
// (this user must have read-only
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controlpass'] = ''; // access to the "mysql/user"
// and "mysql/db" tables)
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config'; // Authentication method (config, http or cookie based)?
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root'; // MySQL user
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = ''; // MySQL password (only needed
// with 'config' auth_type)
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['only_db'] = ''; // If set to a db-name, only
// this db is displayed
// at left frame
// It may also be an array
// of db-names
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['verbose'] = ''; // Verbose name for this host - leave blank to show the hostname
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pmadb'] = ''; // Database used for Relation, Bookmark and PDF Features
// - leave blank for no support
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['bookmarktable'] = ''; // Bookmark table - leave blank for no bookmark support
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['relation'] = ''; // table to describe the relation between links (see doc)
// - leave blank for no relation-links support
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_info'] = ''; // table to describe the display fields
// - leave blank for no display fields support
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_coords'] = ''; // table to describe the tables position for the PDF
// schema - leave blank for no PDF schema support
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pdf_pages'] = ''; // table to describe pages of relationpdf
// - leave blank if you don't want to use this
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['column_comments'] // table to store columncomments
= ''; // - leave blank if you don't want to use this
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowDeny']['order'] // Host authentication order, leave blank to not use
= '';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowDeny']['rules'] // Host authentication rules, leave blank for defaults
= array();
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5. At the same time, go to your configuration page (via
admin.oneandone.co.uk), click on 'accounts'->database.
All the information required can be found from there.
6. Insert YOUR database details in the fields provided.
Once complete it should look something like this:
config.inc.php3 when edited
<?php
/* $Id: config.inc.php3,v 1.151 2002/11/08 22:20:22 robbat2 Exp $ */
// vim: expandtab sw=4 ts=4 sts=4:
..
/**
* phpMyAdmin Configuration File
*
* All directives are explained in Documentation.html
*/
/**
* Sets the php error reporting - Please do not change this line!
*/
if (!isset($old_error_reporting)) {
error_reporting(E_ALL);
@ini_set('display_errors', '1');
}
/**
* Your phpMyAdmin url
*
* Complete the variable below with the full url ie
* http://www.your_web.net/path_to_your_phpMyAdmin_directory/
*
* It must contain characters that are valid for a URL, and the path is
* case sensitive on some Web servers, for example Unix-based servers.
*
* In most cases you can leave this variable empty, as the correct value
* will be detected automatically. However, we recommend that you do
* test to see that the auto-detection code works in your system. A good
* test is to browse a table, then edit a row and save it. There will be
* an error message if phpMyAdmin cannot auto-detect the correct value.
*
* If the auto-detection code does work properly, you can set to TRUE the
* $cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri_DisableWarning'] variable below.
*/
$cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri'] = 'http://www.your_web.net/path_to_your_phpMyAdmin_directory/';
/**
* Disable the default warning about $cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri'] not being set
* You should use this if and ONLY if the PmaAbsoluteUri auto-detection
* works perfectly.
*/
$cfg['PmaAbsoluteUri_DisableWarning'] = FALSE;
/**
* Disable the default warning that is displayed on the DB Details Structure page if
* any of the required Tables for the relationfeatures could not be found
*/
$cfg['PmaNoRelation_DisableWarning'] = FALSE;
/**
* Server(s) configuration
*/
$i = 0;
// The $cfg['Servers'] array starts with $cfg['Servers'][1]. Do not use $cfg['Servers'][0].
// You can disable a server config entry by setting host to ''.
$i++;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'db31.oneandone.co.uk'; // MySQL hostname
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['port'] = '3360'; // MySQL port - leave blank for default port
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['socket'] = ''; // Path to the socket - leave blank for default socket
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type'] = 'tcp'; // How to connect to MySQL server ('tcp' or 'socket')
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controluser'] = ''; // MySQL control user settings
// (this user must have read-only
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controlpass'] = ''; // access to the "mysql/user"
// and "mysql/db" tables)
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config'; // Authentication method (config, http or cookie based)?
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'dbo6548432'; // MySQL user
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = 'ufdhsBJ5'; // MySQL password (only needed
// with 'config' auth_type)
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['only_db'] = 'db6548432'; // If set to a db-name, only
// this db is displayed
// at left frame
// It may also be an array
// of db-names
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['verbose'] = ''; // Verbose name for this host - leave blank to show the hostname
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pmadb'] = ''; // Database used for Relation, Bookmark and PDF Features
// - leave blank for no support
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['bookmarktable'] = ''; // Bookmark table - leave blank for no bookmark support
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['relation'] = ''; // table to describe the relation between links (see doc)
// - leave blank for no relation-links support
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_info'] = ''; // table to describe the display fields
// - leave blank for no display fields support
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['table_coords'] = ''; // table to describe the tables position for the PDF
// schema - leave blank for no PDF schema support
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pdf_pages'] = ''; // table to describe pages of relationpdf
// - leave blank if you don't want to use this
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['column_comments'] // table to store columncomments
= ''; // - leave blank if you don't want to use this
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowDeny']['order'] // Host authentication order, leave blank to not use
= '';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowDeny']['rules'] // Host authentication rules, leave blank for defaults
= array();
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You can leave everything else the way they are.
7. Once this change has been made, save the file (make sure that
you save it with the original name 'config.inc.php3').
8. Upload the whole 'phpMyAdmin' directory to your website.
9. Protect the directory by going to your configuration page
click on homepage -> Directory protection ->
select the 'phpMyAdmin' directory, place a username and password, click
continue then ok.
Now to view the contents of your database go to
www.yourdomain.com/phpMyAdmin
For more information you could open the file called Documentation.html
Please note that this will only work on the Linux Packages
 Only!
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