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Amazon Linux AMI install mysql client programs for RDS

last updated October 9, 2019 in Amazon Cloud Computing, CentOS, MySQL, Package Management

How do I install mysql command for management Amazon RDS or Managed Databases for Amazon Lightsail on Amazon Linux AMI?

How to install LAMP on Debian 10 (Buster)

last updated July 15, 2019 in Apache, Debian / Ubuntu, Linux, MySQL, PHP

How do I install a LAMP stack on Debian 10 (Buster)?

OpenBSD install MariaDB database server

last updated October 1, 2019 in MySQL, OpenBSD, UNIX

How do I install MariaDB database servers on OpenBSD Unix operating systems?

How To Install Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (LAMP) stack On RHEL 8

last updated December 14, 2018 in Apache, Linux, MySQL, PHP, RedHat and Friends

How do I set up a LAMP stack on RHEL 8 cloud server or VPS or bare metal server? How can I install Linux, Apache, MySQL/MariaDB, PHP (LAMP) stack On RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) 8?

Fix Host ‘IP’ is blocked because of many connection errors on MySQL/MariaDB

last updated November 15, 2017 in CentOS, Debian / Ubuntu, FreeBSD, Linux, MySQL, Suse, Troubleshooting, UNIX

I am trying to login to my mysql/mysqld server using the following Unix command:
$ mysql -u foo -h 172.16.5.100 -p dbnmame
But greeted with the following error on screen:
ERROR 1129 (HY000): Host ‘172.16.5.100’ is blocked because of many connection errors; unblock with ‘mysqladmin flush-hosts’
How do I fix this problem on a Linux or Unix-like system?

MySQL reset password for user account

last updated January 16, 2018 in Linux, MySQL, UNIX

I am a new Linux system user. How do I reset a password for a user account named jerry using mysql command line option?
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How to test PHP 7 and WordPress MySQL/MariaDB Database connectivity using a PHP script

last updated August 15, 2017 in Linux, MySQL, PHP, UNIX

I wanted to test if my PHP 7 and MySQL/MariaDB for WordPress are working. If not I wanted to see some error on screen or for my monitoring system. How to write a script for a quick PHP MySQL DB connection test for WordPress or any other database and send an email or text when site is down?

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