After wasting time and money trying to get my server hosted on DreamHost (I mean, why the fuck would you sell me VPS space and then NOT give me root/sudo access to it) I decided to go through the tutorial posted here in MPGH.
(Huge shout out to CSEngineer13 for the guide - it's literally just called Hosting Fabiano on a Linux VPS if anyone cares to reference -I'm not allowed to post links yet)
I'm actually a good way through the tutorial actually.
I have MySQL and phpmyadmin installed and apparently working in that I can enable and disable them as services through putty.
Unfortunately the tutorial seems a little dated now. We're up to mysql 7+ for example, so a few things didn't apply here.
On to my issue, I am at #7 in the "Preparing the VPS" section. The part where I'm supposed to add the game's database to my SQL instance.
But when I try to access phpMyAdmin I get the following error:
#2002 - Connection refused -The server is not responding (or the local server's socket is not correctly configured).
I've scoured stack overflow forums for answers but everyone's solutions appear to be different and I really don't have the experience to just mess around with components I don't fully understand. I don't want to wreck the work I've done thus far.
I'm kind of learning all of this as I go along and I'd like to think I've come pretty far. And it looks like I'm sooooooo close to getting my game up. But this here stumps me.
Originally Posted by cxydsaewq
