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Hi guys!
I just found this forum and it seems to be a really good one! I'm a 29 y-old guy who is a total n00b when it comes to php/mysql and such! Unfortunately my coding experience is almost none! I work as a doctor so it leaves very little time to actually dig into these issues.
However, since there are a lot of scripts and good tutorials out there, me and a good friend of mine managed to set up a forum for medical topic use some time ago. We used a server with php/mysql on and registered a site. We used phpBB 2 script.
Now this server has got some hostings problems. Our site went down completely. I managed to make a back up of the whole database. Now we do have a new ftp server that will host us.
The problem is that I understand that phpMyadmin is the tool to use when restoring a back up. But I have no clue of how to use it! I downloaded the latest version, and then uploaded it to our server.
Now.. how do I install phpMyamin? Do I need php/mysql on my own computer to run it? I have read some installation topics but none actually speaks of any "installation", they talk about how to change your user/pass/hostname info in a configuration file in phpMyadmin, after uncompressing the downloading phpMyadmin! Do I even need to install??
And how do I actually use that? I mean if I had a server set up on my own computer then that would not be a problem.. but if I am being hosted by a third party ftp server, then I can not use my ftp account to take any kind of action other than that of adding, deleting, uploading and downloading files!! So how on earth do I use phpMyadmin on that server in order to restore my database on it?!
Well as you can see I feel very stupid not to know anything about this but it should be a first time for everyone I guess.. and any help from you guys would be highly appreciate it. The more I read about it the less I actually understand...
Thx in advance! :roll:
I just found this forum and it seems to be a really good one! I'm a 29 y-old guy who is a total n00b when it comes to php/mysql and such! Unfortunately my coding experience is almost none! I work as a doctor so it leaves very little time to actually dig into these issues.
However, since there are a lot of scripts and good tutorials out there, me and a good friend of mine managed to set up a forum for medical topic use some time ago. We used a server with php/mysql on and registered a site. We used phpBB 2 script.
Now this server has got some hostings problems. Our site went down completely. I managed to make a back up of the whole database. Now we do have a new ftp server that will host us.
The problem is that I understand that phpMyadmin is the tool to use when restoring a back up. But I have no clue of how to use it! I downloaded the latest version, and then uploaded it to our server.
Now.. how do I install phpMyamin? Do I need php/mysql on my own computer to run it? I have read some installation topics but none actually speaks of any "installation", they talk about how to change your user/pass/hostname info in a configuration file in phpMyadmin, after uncompressing the downloading phpMyadmin! Do I even need to install??
And how do I actually use that? I mean if I had a server set up on my own computer then that would not be a problem.. but if I am being hosted by a third party ftp server, then I can not use my ftp account to take any kind of action other than that of adding, deleting, uploading and downloading files!! So how on earth do I use phpMyadmin on that server in order to restore my database on it?!
Well as you can see I feel very stupid not to know anything about this but it should be a first time for everyone I guess.. and any help from you guys would be highly appreciate it. The more I read about it the less I actually understand...
Thx in advance! :roll: