This is based off the LinuxServer Mastodon Image and Ibelieve this simplifies the bare basics of get things going because Mastodon is fairly complex but well worth the effort. WhyMastodon? For me, it's about having social freedom, when you use big tech there are MANYnegative things that happen. 1.) They tap and mine all of your data for profit. 2.) You have 0 privacy and 0 benefits (no possible profi........

yum -y install mariadb-server systemctl start mariadb mysql_secure_installation Now we need to secure our install and set the MariaDB root password: The lines you need to act on are marked in bold shown with the answer you need. mysql_secure_installation NOTE: RUNNING ALL PARTS OF THIS SCRIPT IS RECOMMENDED FOR ALL MariaDB SER........

Most of us know the heredoc method but what if you need a basic query done repeatedly and manually while working from bash? It is a pain to manually type mysql and login each time. With this command below you can semi-automate those queries: echo "use somedb; select * from auctions" | mysql -u root --password="yourpassword" Just modify the above to suit your needs and you can add more queries by adding a sem........

PDOException: SQLSTATE[42000] [1044] Access denied for user 'db_user'@'localhost' to database 'dbname' in lock_may_be_available() (line 167 of /home/user/public_html/includes/lock.inc). The username and password were correct but some reason CPanel added the user with no permissions! Edit the user's permissions to include "All" from Cpanel or MySQL and that is the solution.........

CREATE Database/Granting PrivilegesCREATE your first database Code: [code:1:0668cd8e74]CREATE database myfirstdb; [/code:1:0668cd8e74] CREATE a user for your first database This one creates the user 'sqladmin' and gives them 'usage' on your new database 'myfirstdb' Code: [code:1:0668cd8e74]mysql> GRANT usage on myfirstdb.* to sqladmin@localhost; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)[/code:1:0668........