Here's my predicament. I'm fairly savvy with Linus and I'm attempting to set up a new website demo on Linode. The Linode already has a 9.10 Ubuntu distro in it. That's OK, I've used Ubuntu a lot. Do I create another configuration profile for it? Then what?

The issues I'm having is getting (and understanding) access to the files I need to work. For example, I've used PuTTY to install phpmyadmin but have no luck accessing it locally. I need to set up the database first before I even attempt to install CMS. I've used 'ln' to set up a link to phpmyadmin.

I've looked through the Linode Library and find it vague and confusing. Is there a step-by-step instruction on how to do this, seemingly, simple task? Not only for Ubuntu, but other distros as well. I guess I should mention that the previous webmaster used Python. Does that influence how the server runs?

I apologize for the request for "hand-holding" but I need help. And I'm pretty sure others out there are having the same issues...

Ubuntu 9.10 is a bit old and support is ended.

I don't know new versions of Ubuntu, but in Debian 6.0 "apt-get install phpmyadmin" makes everything automatic and you can visit http://yourdomain.com/phpmyadmin after that.

I would recommend to install latest Ubuntu (or 10.04 LTS) or Debian 6.0 (Ubuntu is based on Debian)

Actually I've run through apt-get to install phpmyadmin in Ubuntu 9.10.

That's just it, I get Error 404 when I use http://mydomain.com/phpmyadmin

I suppose in Debian 4.0 or so you should do more things after apt-get install phpmyadmin. That's what I tried to say... maybe you have to do more things in Ubuntu 9.10.

I found this: http://tolearnfree.blogspot.com/2009/11/how-to-install-apache2-php5-mysql-and.html


You can try to reconfigure it: dpkg-reconfigure phpmyadmin
You can also check apache2 error.log located at /var/log/apache2./error.log

I think by default it is visible via localhost only. phpmyadmin is a huge target for script kiddies.

Echo this.