[LBo] Serendipity and MySQL

[Jisao]

Niki Kovacs wrote:
> Jisao a écrit :
>
>> No, I haven't solved it yet.  I tried many things, and I think 
>> installing phpmyadmin will be the easiest
>
> With due respect, this is not an RTFM answer, but I've had the same 
> problem as you had. In the long run, I was better off reading the - 
> excellent - documentation at www.mysql.com. You don't have to read 
> everything, just the bits about install and configuring - so you know 
> exactly what you are doing - and then maybe the excellent SQL 
> tutorials on the site, that come along with example databases.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Niki
Well, in spite of your disclaimer, I respectfully perceive that I got 
dished an RTFM answer. 

The difficulty here is not each software in itself  (and their excellent 
documentation), but the integration of each of them together (how nice 
they play with each other).  There is little documentation that goes:  
"but when you install on Debian, keep in mind that the maintainers have 
already preconfigured some files for you, which in turn will affect our 
instructions on page 5 of the blog software you might wish to install.  
However, with Ubuntu, the sudo commands will create problems of their 
own when you follow the same instructions.  Also, remember that anything 
under version 4.3.01 will behave differently with such-and-such 
configuration files than subsequent mysql version (available on Ubuntu, 
Debian testing and unstable, but not on Debian stable)".  I wish they 
would, but they don't.  You have to dig everywhere to discover that.

However, I will keep your link in mind, as I could indeed find gems in 
that fine documentation.

Cheers,

Jisao