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Date:  Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:43:51 -0700
From:  "Ken Marcus - Precision Web Hosting, Inc." <kenmarcus (at mark) precisionweb.net>
Subject:  [coba-e:14118] Re: MySQL Database Setup Interface
To:  <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
Message-Id:  <7B51314796AE45BAADE5E056EB11E182@OfficeKen>
References:  <C506812F.33820%webmaster (at mark) muntada.com> <AD19E9E41125487EAD39EC25FFE0675B (at mark) OfficeKen> <48E12483.1080000 (at mark) probass.com>
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>
> I think that the phpmyadmin can be configured so the siteadmin user can 
> edit and or add
> to their I/O for extra db's using Nuonce phpmyadmin.
>
> RC
>
> Ken Marcus - Precision Web Hosting, Inc. wrote:
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Abdul-Rashid Abdullah" 
>> <webmaster (at mark) muntada.com>
>> To: "coba-e (at mark) bluequartz. org" <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
>> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 9:57 AM
>> Subject: [coba-e:14113] Re: MySQL Database Setup Interface
>>
>>
>>> I'm second!
>>>
>>> The webapp deal actually randomly generates a username/password and 
>>> database
>>> name.  So it is hard to tell what is what.
>>>
>>> Also, an idea I had too is putting the actual MySQL database under the 
>>> site
>>> directory and drawing a symbolic link to it in the MySQL directory. 
>>> This
>>> way the disk space used will be part of the quota, a site migration 
>>> would
>>> catch the database as well, and it would also be easy to know what 
>>> databases
>>> belong to what sites.
>>>
>>> -Regards,
>>>
>>> Rashid
>>>
>>>
>>> On 9/29/08 12:51 PM, "Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet"
>>> <cobaltfacts (at mark) virtbiz.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Michael Stauber wrote:
>>>>> Hi Chris,
>>>>> I'll pull that functionality into a separate module and will cobble 
>>>>> something
>>>>> together that allows to automatically create/remove MySQL databases 
>>>>> and users
>>>>> through the BlueQuartz GUI when a site is created, removed or 
>>>>> modified.
>>>>
>>>> Sounds great.  Please let us know when that's ready for release.
>>>>
>>>> *the line starts here*  ;)
>>>
>>
>> The MySQL addition is a good idea.
>>
>> On the WebApp topic: One problem with the Web Apps is that you can't 
>> rellay enable them for your customer's to be able to install themselves. 
>> The reason is that they are sll set up with the default username and 
>> password to log into the web app itself. So while the database login is 
>> good, the actual login from the admin area for that app is very 
>> guessable. I had a customer testing them all out in the default 
>> directories with the default logins.
>>
>> The web apps do add lines to the apache config for the site; one thing 
>> that would be a nice addition is to add a php_admin_value open_basedir 
>> restriction to restrict the app to its own directory.
>>
>>
>>
>> ----
>> Ken Marcus
>> Ecommerce Web Hosting by
>> Precision Web Hosting, Inc.
>> http://www.precisionweb.net
>>
>>
>>
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From: "Richard C. Barker Sr." <rc (at mark) probass.com>



> In reply, any of my customers can login to their site admin and install on 
> there own any of  the 41 packages that they want and have no problems. The 
> webapp installer has to be at least  version 2.15.



To be clear; it is possible to enable the Web Apps for siteadmins, but it's 
not a good idea unless you trust them to set up better passwords after they 
install it.


----
Ken Marcus
Ecommerce Web Hosting by
Precision Web Hosting, Inc.
http://www.precisionweb.net