I feel like I should start this post by saying, "I'm back..." It's been a while and I've been hacking my way through the Raq(4)550 and loving every minute of it. All in all, I think this thing is awesome, and it works flawlessly for most things. Of course, that's where we begin this email...

I would like to start blogging for my own personal amusement, and I've looked around at a few tools on the web to find that most of them require PHP, which the Raq seems to have, and MySQL, which the RAQ also seems to have. Unfortunately, they all want to know my MySQL connection information and I don't know that or even how to get access to the database. Is there a tutorial or more information on this somewhere? What do you guys recommend?

Finally, I have been using the Blog Software Breakdown (http://www.asymptomatic.net/blogbreakdown.htm) site that I found through Google and think I am going to try installing WordPress. Does anyone recommend something different? Any advice would be appreciated.

Best regards and thanks in advance,

Michael

Hi,

Maybe I can suggest you to install phpMyAdmin on your server. This web control panel will help you to create your MySQL database.

Karl

Thanks, actually finally got it running after learning that it is sometimes problematic to have a password that begins with something like a ",". Learn something new every day...