Hi,
I just bought a VPS with Linux CentOS 32 bit and Direct Admin.
I chose the Self Managed option, which means I don't get support, thinking it might make me more self subsistent in the long run. It's 10 bucks a month less.
I only had experience with a reseller before this, and thought things like php, phpmyadmin and apache would be installed already.
However, they're not, or at least it seems so.
I still want to do this on my own though, and would greatly appreciate your kind help.
So let's see if I have this right. I started to suspect I wouldn't have the phpmyadmin I was so accustomed on the reseller, when I went to User Level, Advanced features, clicked on phpMyAdmin and the user and password wasn't the same as my DA user and pw.
I checked and double checked, but perhaps rightly concluded even though DA was sending me to a user and password popup page, the issue was that I didn't have phpmyadmin.
So how to instal phpmyadmin?
That's when it came to me I hadn't installed php or apache. Am I right assuming these two things are probably not installed?
I do have ftp access of course, and there are certainly no folders with apache, php or phpmyadmin. Then again, these weren't available at my reseller either, but of course that's because I didn't have root access over there, whereas here clearly I do.
So as I come to terms with what it means to have root access, am I right in assuming these three things are what I need to install? Or am I missing anything out?
Any good tutorial out there to install them?
Perhaps somewhere on DirectAdmin, I can find how to install them?
Also, reading tutorials like this one http://www.eukhost.com/forums/f15/how-install-phpmyadmin-pma-linux-vps-dedicated-server-4234/ is starting to dispel the notion in me that thought I could just ftp the php, phpmyadmin and apache files. They seem to be using something that's probably called SSH access. Is this a must or will my ftp do?
And when these tutorials talk about /usr/share/ wouldn't they mean I can just create a folder called 'share' inside my root- I understand root to be the / that's above all the other subfolders-, and ftp it all to the 'share' folder?
I just bought a VPS with Linux CentOS 32 bit and Direct Admin.
I chose the Self Managed option, which means I don't get support, thinking it might make me more self subsistent in the long run. It's 10 bucks a month less.
I only had experience with a reseller before this, and thought things like php, phpmyadmin and apache would be installed already.
However, they're not, or at least it seems so.
I still want to do this on my own though, and would greatly appreciate your kind help.
So let's see if I have this right. I started to suspect I wouldn't have the phpmyadmin I was so accustomed on the reseller, when I went to User Level, Advanced features, clicked on phpMyAdmin and the user and password wasn't the same as my DA user and pw.
I checked and double checked, but perhaps rightly concluded even though DA was sending me to a user and password popup page, the issue was that I didn't have phpmyadmin.
So how to instal phpmyadmin?
That's when it came to me I hadn't installed php or apache. Am I right assuming these two things are probably not installed?
I do have ftp access of course, and there are certainly no folders with apache, php or phpmyadmin. Then again, these weren't available at my reseller either, but of course that's because I didn't have root access over there, whereas here clearly I do.
So as I come to terms with what it means to have root access, am I right in assuming these three things are what I need to install? Or am I missing anything out?
Any good tutorial out there to install them?
Perhaps somewhere on DirectAdmin, I can find how to install them?
Also, reading tutorials like this one http://www.eukhost.com/forums/f15/how-install-phpmyadmin-pma-linux-vps-dedicated-server-4234/ is starting to dispel the notion in me that thought I could just ftp the php, phpmyadmin and apache files. They seem to be using something that's probably called SSH access. Is this a must or will my ftp do?
And when these tutorials talk about /usr/share/ wouldn't they mean I can just create a folder called 'share' inside my root- I understand root to be the / that's above all the other subfolders-, and ftp it all to the 'share' folder?
