[selowitch]

Arrggh!! I'm running phpMyAdmin 2.6.3-rc1 and am having a whale of a time trying to enable its full relational features. Something about enabling the pma_db account and privileges, etc. I did find this one tutorial but it seems rather out-of-date.

Help?

[maCCer]

i want to know that as well

[selowitch]

Maybe we should call for Underdog.

[Diggory Laycock]

What problems are you having - I just tried (mainly using the included PHPMyAdmin docs) - and it appears to work.

1 - run the create-tables.sql script via phpmyadmin.
2 - edit the phpmyadmin config file to set-up the pma tables - using the default values in the comments.
3 - set up the relationships via the 'relational view' page.

[selowitch]

Originally Posted by Diggory Laycock

What problems are you having - I just tried (mainly using the included PHPMyAdmin docs) - and it appears to work.

1 - run the create-tables.sql script via phpmyadmin.
2 - edit the phpmyadmin config file to set-up the pma tables - using the default values in the comments.
3 - set up the relationships via the 'relational view' page.

Well, when I run the create_table.sql script as instructed, I get this error message:

Code:
Error

SQL query:

-- --------------------------------------------------------
-- SQL Commands to set up the pmadb as described in Documentation.html.
-- 
-- DON'T RUN THIS SCRIPT ON MySQL 4.1.2 AND ABOVE!
-- Instead, please run create_tables_mysql_4_1_2+.sql.
-- 
-- This script expects the user pma to already be existing. If we would put a
-- line here to create him too many users might just use this script and end
-- up with having the same password for the controluser.
-- 
-- This user "pma" must be defined in config.inc.php (controluser/controlpass)
-- 
-- Please don't forget to set up the tablenames in config.inc.php
-- 
-- $Id: create_tables.sql,v 2.9 2004/07/18 13:06:03 lem9 Exp $
-- --------------------------------------------------------
-- 
-- Database : `phpmyadmin`
-- 
DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS `phpmyadmin`

MySQL said: Documentation
#1044 - Access denied for user: 'barridoff@localhost' to database 'phpmyadmin'

Also, when I first log into phpMyAdmin, I get the message No Privileges.

I guess I don't understand how to set users and privileges well enough to clear the error.

[Diggory Laycock]

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/privilege-system.html

[selowitch]

Originally Posted by Diggory Laycock

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/privilege-system.html

Thanks. But I really don't have the time or patience to read through all that just to figure out how to enable the relational featurs of phpMyAdmin. Is there a shorter, simpler way to reach that objective? No lectures, please.

[selowitch]

Oops.

[Simon Mundy]

Originally Posted by selowitch

Thanks. But I really don't have the time or patience to read through all that just to figure out how to enable the relational featurs of phpMyAdmin. Is there a shorter, simpler way to reach that objective? No lectures, please.

The reason you're getting privilege errors is that the 'barridoff' user probably doesn't have sufficient permissions to drop or alter tables. Choose the root user, or grant permissions to a new user who can CREATE, ALTER, INDEX and DROP to any database on your server (obviously this won't be an account that you use frequently, so choose a very secure password).

E.g. (from the MySQL command-line client)

%>GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, ALTER, INDEX, DROP ON *.* TO 'yourusername'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'yourverysecurepassword';

Then you can run the supplied scripts as this user and initialise the PMA tables/privileges.

I know you don't want the lecture, so you won't get the full rant, but you're really going to save yourself a lot of grief if you can spend a wee bit of time familiarising yourself with mysql administration.

The relationship stuff is cool once you get it running.

[selowitch]

Originally Posted by Simon Mundy

The reason you're getting privilege errors is that the 'barridoff' user probably doesn't have sufficient permissions to drop or alter tables.

That's what I thought but I don't have a clue how to grant myself those permissions/privileges. But, thanks to your tip, I can at least get started.

Originally Posted by Simon Mundy

I know you don't want the lecture, so you won't get the full rant, but you're really going to save yourself a lot of grief if you can spend a wee bit of time familiarising yourself with mysql administration.

I'm sure you're right about that. Could you perhaps recommend a good book on the subject?

Originally Posted by Simon Mundy

The relationship stuff is cool once you get it running.

I know. I hate having to look up and copy foreign keys in other tables manually.

[Diggory Laycock]

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...ce&s=books

Is a book I have that gives you the very basics of MySQL for PHP development.

[selowitch]

Seems like my biggest need is not a book on PHP/MySQL itself, but one on how to administer a LAMP environment (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) effectively using SSH, the command line, and phpMyAdmin.

EDIT: I finally got things working with the help of this book. It involved modifying the create_tables.sql file to remove the portion of the query for which I didn't have permission, and modifying the config file accordingly. Not easy, but at least now it works.