Last updated on October 9th, 2024 at 12:18 pm
Hosting a data base driven website on a Cpanel hosting as offered by Truehost is simple.
They only difference between hosting a non-database driven website and website driven website is that a database driven website require database set up and upload.
Setting up a database for a website, during web hosting
Login to your Cpanel using credentials provided by Truehost Kenya.
Basically mean clicking on the Cpanel url http://www.yourdomain.com/cpanel or http://www.serveripaddress/~yourusername/cpanel
Input your username
Input your password
Login.
On successful login, proceed to click mysql databases icon in the Cpanel
Creating a database
Under create database
Give your database a name
Click create database
Database name will therefore be your username_newnameyouhavegiven
Adding User to a new database
Online databases do not use the root user as default on localhost (local development phpmyadmin)
Under add new user
Indicate username
Username should have fewer than 7 characters
Input a desired database password
I recommend to use password creator to have a strong password.
At this point make sure you have saved your database name, your database username and your database password in a text file for use in your website.
Adding a user to your database
Under Add a User to a Database
Selected the user you have created
Select your database
Click Add to add
It prompts you for roles to issue you database user
You may select all
Then presses add to finalize.
Uploading Database
Make sure you have exported your database from your localhost (local development environment) to a .sql file or .zip file if you are dealing with large database.
From your Cpanel Home
Click on phpmyAdmin icon
It will open in a new tab
Choose the database created earlier from the left side panel
Click on the database
Click on import option
Browse the location of your exported database
Select database file to import
On Successful import – you will have uploaded your database
Upload the files in the normal way as illustrated in the upload of non-database driven website tutorial
Ensure database connection or config files of your website reflect the new database name, new database user, new database password
Server should remain localhost unless advised otherwise by Truehost team.
Bingo – u r live now.