Category Archives: MySQL

Everything you need to know about MySQL

Host your website at home (under construction)

All previous how-to-s are the preamble to the current post. In fact, what we desire is to host our website at home, and be in complete control on what and how we install on our server. At this point you should have an Ubuntu server on which Apache, MySQL, PHP and WordPress have been installed. […]

Install MySQL

Another important step towards a web hosting system is a backend database. On Linux many databases systems are available, but the one most webhosts use is MySQL. Besides MySQL, Postgres and MariaDB also deserve mentioning. The installation is not more complicated than Apache server installation (did you read the Install Apache how-to?) Start a terminal […]