"For the administration of the MySQL database you can use web based tools like phpMyAdmin which will also be installed in this howto. phpMyAdmin is a comfortable graphical interface which means you do not have to mess around with the command line.
This tutorial is based on Fedora 9. You should already have set up a basic Fedora 9 system, for example as described in the first seven chapters of this tutorial: http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-fedora9"