Chapter 12. MySQL GUI Administration

If you want to access your database using the command line MySQL client, then you have now completed the Getting Started.

Otherwise, you can use a GUI tool such as phpMyAdmin to interact with your database instance. Common operations include managing databases, tables, fields, relations, indexes, users, and permissions. Included below is a procedure to set up phpMyAdmin on an Ubuntu 11.04 Cloud Server.

For more detailed installation configuration instructions see the phpMyAdmin documentation at: http://www.phpmyadmin.net/documentation/.

	Note
	Rackspace does not provide phpMyAdmin support, and the user is responsible for any security related configuration.

Procedure 12.1. To install and configure phpMyAdmin on an Ubuntu 11.04 Cloud Server:

Install phpMyAdmin:
sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin
Set up a symbolic link to the phpmyadmin config file:
sudo ln -s /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf
Edit the /etc/phpmyadmin/config-db.php config file to point to your database instance:
$dbserver='<cloud database hostname>';
Restart apache:
sudo apachectl restart
Access phpMyAdmin at http://<your_ipaddress>/phpMyAdmin:

This concludes the Getting Started. Thank you for using Rackspace Cloud products.

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