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SQL Buddy

Overview

Sqlbuddy is a very minimal user interface for MariaDB. It's advantage is that it is a light interface making it very fast. Also, it is not used as much as #phpMyAdmin

Installation

Sqlbuddy can be acquired from http://sqlbuddy.com/. This site will allow the user to download a zip file of the user interface. Move this file to the server using an ftp client (such as filezilla) and then use mv to move the zip file to directory shown below and remain there for the rest of installation.

/usr/share/nginx/html

In order to unzip the file, unzip must first be installed on the server. If it is not type:

aptidude install unzip

Then, unzip the file by typing:

unzip sqlbuddy.zip
rm -rf sqlbuddy.zip

This method of download should have all of the files located directly under the sqlbuddy directory; however, this needs to be confirmed first. Type:

ll sqlbuddy

If there is a single directory listed named src then the files, which are embedded in sqlbuddy/src need to be moved to sqlbuddy. Do this by typing:

mv sqlbuddy/src/* sqlbuddy

If there are multiple files in the sqlbuddy directory, ignore the above command.

Now, a final configuration must be done in the www file so that the index.php will be recognized as the primary site. Go to the file shown below using pico (or any other text editor of your choice).

/etc/nginx/sites-available/www

In this file add index.php to the line shown below (shown with index.php added already).

index index.html index.htm index.php

Sqlbuddy should now be able to be accessed by typing in yourservername/sqlbuddy into the browser.

Troubleshooting

There are still some quirks that may need to be worked out at this point.

Firefox

Firefox is excellent at tracking history; however, because of this, anything that was done incorrectly during the setup of sqlbuddy, mariadb, or even php will be remembered by the browser. If firefox is your browser of choice, it will be necessary to clear any history, after doing any major troubleshooting in order to allow those changes to take effect in firefox.