No management in DB Manager for separate MySQL server

Hi,

So I asked hosting provider to set me up a separate MySQL database server+PHPMyAdmin (without DirectAdmin), on same data-center, with just a different internal IP, as well as external, so that I could access the MySQL server on DDoS attack, and backup everything / migrate easier.

So he did that setup. But the problem is that, now I have to use Navicat for MySQL to connect to database server, and create database, and I cannot do anything in DirectAdmin. So there is issues there probably?

As this article says that I should be able to manage databases at user level without any need of any external tool:
https://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=140

The PhpMyAdmin link in there also points out to same server as direct admin.

Hello,

You should complete all the steps from the guide and the step #4 as well.

For phpMyAdmin to work and open directly from your MySQL server you need to have nginx+php or apache+php installed there too.

Directadmin has phpMyAdmin, and your users whenever allowed to use it will use phpMyAdmin from Directadmin server by default.