PhPMyAdmin and Yahoo webhosting

Question

I am using Yahoo to host my website and I can not figure out
how to connect to Mysql database directly through yahoo. Any ideas?
Has anyone been able to connect direct?
I do not have MySql or PhPMyAdmin installed on my computer.

Answer 1

Hi hvac_pro,
Yes, you can connect -- though it's not as straight-away as
it could be.
You first need to ensure you have a testing server listed in
your Site config screen. Nothing fancy, but I've found (twice, both
the hard way since I don't set them up often) that the URL noted
for the testing server needs to be the base/root for the site, e.g.
http://www.yoursite.com.
From there, you can use the Application > Database to
setup your database type as mySQL, name your connection ("test"),
your MySQL name = mysql (always with Yahoo), and specify the
username and password you use with PHPMyAdmin. If those values are
all happy, you cah use the "Select..." button to browse to your
database name, or simply type it in.
Once done, the test button below the OK button should return
a "Connection was successfully made." result.
The local and hosted database is a way to go, though in my
case, I had two challenges with that approach: (1) I do updates and
changes from a few different machines (my home machine, and
occasionally from a work machine when things get slow there), and
(2) I haven't discovered an import feature with Yahoo, just export
within PHPMyAdmin. I suppose using the command line may allow
direct importing of tables or databases, but the Yahoo! help pages
make little mention of it, and when I asked Yahoo! Support, the
answer was non-responsive, leading me to speculate they don't allow
importing of data from other sources. (And believe me, when I had
3,200 records to manually re-create from another source, I did look
for how to do it before hankering down and doing a massive
copy-paste project.)