My web site which has a few simple java server pages including one that connects to MySQL is hosted on a linux server & has phpmyadmin facilities set up, which I thought was very useful, once I figured out how to use it.
I was previously using apache-tomcat-5.5.25 on windows , got MySQl set up but I couldn’t get phpmyadmin installed on windows to save my life.

After looking into Linux I noticed articles stating you could install lamp using something like: sudo apt-get lamp-server ^

However after trying several times I got glitches which I didn’t know how to sort out , especially at the stage phpmyadmin which came up with “ you need to have a database installed “ .

Yours is the first to work which I have set up on Linux Mint 7. The only thing different from your installation list was that after doing :

sudo apt-get install mysql-server

a prompt can up for the password on the screen to type in anyway.

I then decided to log in using mysql -u root -p (mypassword) & do CREATE DATABASE ..

use database, then CREATE TABLE

I then followed the rest of your schedule to the end , but http://locahost/phpmyadmin

wouldn’t bring up the log in. From my other trial & error efforts I remembered seeing amend /etc/apache2/apache2.conf , so I did a gedit & put in the line

“Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf

re started apache & got the phpmyadmin log in. I got in using root & the same password for mysql.
The database & table were showing that I created when I logged in . MySQl administrator & query is in under the programing menu of my Mint Installation so it looks like everything I want is installed & working !

Hallelujah!!!