Managing PHPMyAdmin From cPanel

PHPMyAdmin is a default application used for managing databases for your website which comes with cpanel. Activating PHPMyAdmin is an easy task once you correctly installed and configured cpanel for your website hosting account then you can easily launch PHPMyAdmin for your acount. Using Phpmyadmin you can manage all your MySQL databases smoothly. PHPMyAdmin allows you to add, edit and delete databases which you would be using for your website.


Activating PHPMyAdmin is fairly easy task if you have access to your control panel you can do it from anywhere you want. It’s simple, just a few clicks process. You just need to click on PHPMyAdmin icon under ‘databases’ section of cPanel to get it activated.
Most imporatant feature of PhpMyAdmin is that you are able to administer all MySQL databases that you have created for your account. There is no need to launch new window of phpmyAdmin everytime you want to manage/administer any specific MySQL database, thus it gives you more freedom for managing your website hosting acccount. Once you click on PhpmyAdmin icon you are directed to proper page and PhpmyAdmin will get loaded so that you can manage all your databases. You have range of languages supported for PhpmyAdmin which you can set once you get into it’s control area.

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This post was written by on April 29, 2008

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All about FTP

Once you created your website using any sitebuilder package then it’s time to upload it to your website hosting account. Usually you can upload all your webpages through your control panel or through using any FTP client software. FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. Using FTP tool you can transfer files from your computer to another computer usually you use FTP for uploading/downloading from your PC to your web host server.

There are many such freely available FTP client softwares available in market. Some Host do provides you certain option using which you can upload all your data using your web browser. This may not be a reliable option if you want to upload multiple files. Thus using FTP client softwares you can easily upload and download files onto your hosting account you need to specify few things while you connect to your webhost server These are the settings that should be used:
Host Name: your-domain-name.com
Username: username
Password: password
Default Directory: /web
Once you signup for your website hosting your host will provide you all login details including FTP details at your email address which you can use while connecting to your server via FTP program.
There are hundreds of such FTP software available few of them are free based on open source. Following are most popular FTP clients softwares smartFTP, Cure FTPFileZilla, FTP Commander etc…You can find a list for FTP softwares at download.com

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This post was written by on March 20, 2008

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