Re: Novice Question

[Dave Kaufman]

kingsell@stripped wrote:

>I have a Web site which is hosted by my ISP.  I have a virtual domain,
shell
>access, etc.. I'm wanting to set up mySQL but I'm not sure how to do it on
the
>remote machine.  Do I install mySQL in the cgi-bin directory?  Or do I need
to
>have the ISP install it

IMO, you should find a web hosting provider that already *has* installed it,
and supports it (there's a good chance yours already does).  Many web
providers offer MySQL.

once you are to that point, the provider will generally create an empty
database within a shared server for your use, and give you a login name and
password to use it.  Then you can create tables and put data in them and
query it back out and do all the other silly things people tend to do with
databases :-)

if your ISP doesn't offer MySQL for you to use on your website, check out
www.he.net and www.pair.com , a couple of reasonably priced web hosts that
do.

hth,

-dave