Using PHPMyAdmin to administer Amazon RDS

Question

I can\'t get PHPMyAdmin to connect to my Amazon RDS instance. I\'ve granted permissions for my IP address to the DB Security Group which has access to this database I\'m tr

Answer 1

In Debian Lenny using the phpmyadmin from the repo add this to /etc/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php :

$i++;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'xxxxx.xxxxxxxxxx.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['port'] = '3306';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['socket'] = '';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type'] = 'tcp';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension'] = 'mysql';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['compress'] = TRUE;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'xxxxxxxxxxxx';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx';