Database Startup

[Clint Harshaw]

George Lemos wrote:
> If someone could just point me in the right direction I would be grateful.
> I'm not very sure of what database system has been or not been installed on
> this fedora box or what it is called. If I had a little more information I
> would be able to more successfully Google what I am looking for. I have
> experience with MS SQL7/2000 and ACCESS but never worked with any of the
> Linux flavor databases. 
> 
> My overall goal is to set up phpBB on a box that is running fedora/apache. I
> have worked with phpBB before on a windows system, but not with Linux and
> its time for me to rollem up and get to work. 
> 
> The documentation states I need to have PostgreSQL or MySQL. Any suggestions
> or recommendations on finding out what I have on this system would be great.
>>From there I can get down to reading what I need to read to get going.
> 
> Thank you.

Both PostgreSQL and MySQL come with Fedora 
(http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/package-list/).

I can recommend these resources for learning MySQL and PHP as a crash 
course -

online resources:

MySQL Documentation
http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/index.html

PHP Documentation
http://www.php.net/manual/en/


paperback resources:

Managing and Using MySQL (GReese, RYarger, TKing)
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/msql2/index.html

MySQL Cookbook (PDuBois)
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mysqlckbk/index.html

MySQL (PDuBois)
http://tinyurl.com/27j2w

This may be "more info than you need to know" for setting up phpBB on 
your machine, but I've found them to be good references. I've used 
phpBB, but I didn't bother with any configuration on it, since it was on 
another host machine, and not my own. The online MySQL documentation and 
PHP documentation pages are particularly helpful since they have 
user-contributed comments as well.

Clint