Hello, It is interesting how my thread took off. Anyway, I found the config files, the my.conf file for mysql and the phpMyAdmin.conf file. However, I cannot access it from the same linux box, using localhost, or any of the systems in my local network. I found a tutorial online and it was aimed at a local network because the tutorial had one opening it up to accept connections from any ip and it didn't get into securing it with SSL. Even after following that, I still got the message that I do not have permission to access the directory where phpmyadmin is. I did wget and moved it to my apache server document root. So, my goals are twofold, and in the order listed. 1) First, I'd like to have a box on my network that I can SSH to and run applications that require mysql db, eg. drupal, owncloud, and some php mvc frameworks. This could be from my local network, e.g. 192.168.0.6 accessing the Centos box at 192.168.0.4 2) Then, I want to access it using a domain, which I have that currently points to the machine.
I did this previously and was accessing the phpmyadmin from the domain that I had purchased and using a dynamic IP service, I have it pointing to my network. At this point, I don't have the means to offer a server for friends and family, or others. What is difficult is the phpmyadmin issue and the mysql db. I took one course on Lynda.com that dealt with this topic and it used Ubuntu which has a wizard that lets you setup the username/pw for the db and phpmyadmin. With Centos, I just used yum to download mysql and I used wget to get phpmyadmin. I have not been able to find the default username and password when it is installed in this fashion. I have the root account which I think by default is without a password. I just don't know how to access the phpmyadmin directory. It is possible to just create a db using the command line but I'd like to figure the phpmyadmin access issue out. Thanks, Bruce