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Where can I find phpMyAdmin / phpPgAdmin?

admin — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:06:55 +0000

All accounts come with phpMyAdmin and phpPgAdmin installed and ready to use for administering MySQL and PostgreSQL databases. It is located within your cPanel -> Databases section

Unable to connect to database

admin — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:45:13 +0000

If you are getting error messages in scripts please be sure that you have created a user in the cPanel MySQL hosting tool and that you have added the user to a database. This must be done after the database is created to allow access to it.

When a script needs database details, they will be of the form:

yourcpanelusername_databasename

yourcpanelusername_mysqluser

Database times out when trying to restore it

admin — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:37:00 +0000

If you are trying to restore a large database either via phpMyAdmin or the cPanel backup tool it may time out, this is due to PHP’s inbuilt timeout limit.

Please submit a ticket and a member of staff will restore your database for you.

Database backup and restore in cPanel

admin — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:10:08 +0000

In cPanel go to the Backups section. You can see the “Download a MySQL Database Backup” option, showing your databases underneath. To download a backup, click the database name zipped backup of your database in .sql.gz format will be downloaded. This is downloaded in gzip format, which can be extracted by applications such as WinRAR or Winzip. After extraction you can view the SQL code which can create the database and all the data contained within. The .sql.gz file you have downloaded is the backup of your database, you should keep this file safe in case restoration is needed in the future.

To restore the database go to the Backups section of your cPanel hosting account. Look for the “Restore a MySQL Database” section and press the choose button. Find the backup you have stored on your computer and select it and click upload. This will restore your database from the backup.

Please note that you may have to delete the database you are restoring before you restore it, you can do this from the MySQL Databases section in cPanel.