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Restrict access to phpMyAdmin by IP

Under an Ubuntu system phpMyAdmin adds an Apache vhost that makes it publically available at http://yoursite.com/phpmyadmin . By accessing http://yoursite.com/phpmyadmin have maximum chances to get hacked your database. Under Ubuntu, the phpMyAdmin apache conf file is located at: /etc/apache2/conf-available/phpmyadmin.conf Simply add the following order, allow, deny directives …

Solution for MySQL Error : Host ‘host_name’ is blocked

If the following error occurs, it means that mysqld has received many connection requests from the given host that were interrupted in the middle: Host ‘host_name’ is blocked because of many connection errors. Unblock with ‘mysqladmin flush-hosts’ The value of the max_connect_errors system variable determines …