mySQL installation...

[andyrue304]

Hi there.

I just installed LAMP on Hardy. Apache and PHP 5 are working, I've checked, but how do I verify that mySQL installed correctly?

During installation it asked me to set a password, which I did, but how do I find out the other information I need such as the database name?

Thanks
Andy

[hyper_ch]

you have to create one. Best is to install phpMyAdmin

[andyrue304]

Thanks.

So what was the point of setting up a password in the installation process?

[hyper_ch]

Thanks.

So what was the point of setting up a password in the installation process?

setting mysql root password... without it anybody could query it...

[andyrue304]

Oh right!

Cheers m8!

EDIT: Acutually I think I have installed phpmyadmin already as I used this command to do the installation:

sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 mysql-server mysql-client phpmyadmin

So how do I use phpmyadmin?

Sorry I'm new to this, usually just stick to design