# Problem phpmyadmin
**URL:** https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/problem-phpmyadmin/80866
**Category:** Hosting Support
**Created:** [August 15, 2023, 11:22am UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/problem-phpmyadmin/80866 "2023-08-15T11:22:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Savegllry](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/Savegllry)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2023, 11:22am UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/problem-phpmyadmin/80866/1 "2023-08-15T11:22:40Z")
### Website URL
adm.vbs.my.id
### Other Information
Why can’t I view the contents of the tables in my database?
this notification always appears when I try to view the contents of the table.
can anyone handle this?
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### Author:  [@Meishin](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/Meishin)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2023, 12:27pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/problem-phpmyadmin/80866/2 "2023-08-15T12:27:37Z")
As I told you in a previous post, it is not recommended to setup phpMyAdmin on your own — simply use the phpMyAdmin tool shown in your control panel.
If there’s no good reason that you wanted to host a phpMyAdmin by yourself, then please give up on this one.
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### Author:  [@anon42008019](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/anon42008019)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2023, 12:31pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/problem-phpmyadmin/80866/3 "2023-08-15T12:31:46Z")
I don’t think that OP would even be able to connect to the database server externally let alone be able to fetch the tables. So it is likely that OP uses Infinityfree’s phpmyadmin.
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### Author:  [@ChrisPAR](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/ChrisPAR)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2023, 12:33pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/problem-phpmyadmin/80866/4 "2023-08-15T12:33:44Z")
Take a look at the URL at the start of the post. It is one of a custom PHPMyAdmin installation.
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### Author:  [@Meishin](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/Meishin)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2023, 12:33pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/problem-phpmyadmin/80866/5 "2023-08-15T12:33:46Z")
No, you didn’t read his previous post (while I do).
He IS hosting this phpMyAdmin instance by himself.
While it is true that we don’t allow remote MySQL, this isn’t remote. The instance runs on a IF server.
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### Author:  [@anon42008019](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/anon42008019)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2023, 12:35pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/problem-phpmyadmin/80866/6 "2023-08-15T12:35:37Z")
If that’s the case then give up on it already OP.
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### Author:  [@KangJL](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/KangJL)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2023, 12:43pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/problem-phpmyadmin/80866/7 "2023-08-15T12:43:02Z")
> [@Savegllry](#):
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> Why can’t I view the contents of the tables in my database?
Have you tried using adminer?
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### Author:  [@Savegllry](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/Savegllry)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2023, 12:54pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/problem-phpmyadmin/80866/8 "2023-08-15T12:54:05Z")
> [@anon42008019](#):
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> I don’t think that OP would even be able to connect to the database server externally let alone be able to fetch the tables. So it is likely that OP uses Infinityfree’s phpmyadmin.
yes, it’s pointing to my phpmyadmin infinityfree server. Actually, there are several reasons I use this.
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### Author:  [@Savegllry](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/Savegllry)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2023, 12:56pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/problem-phpmyadmin/80866/9 "2023-08-15T12:56:35Z")
no, I’ve read it. but there are indeed some considerations for me to use this method.
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### Author:  [@anon42008019](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/anon42008019)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2023, 1:02pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/problem-phpmyadmin/80866/10 "2023-08-15T13:02:58Z")
What considerations?
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### Author:  [@SpookyKipper](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/SpookyKipper)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2023, 1:07pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/problem-phpmyadmin/80866/11 "2023-08-15T13:07:16Z")
> [@Savegllry](#):
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> Actually, there are several reasons I use this.
The only reason I can think of is Security, since the publicly hosted phpMyAdmin does not have SSL installed
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### Author:  [@Admin](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/Admin)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2023, 5:00pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/problem-phpmyadmin/80866/12 "2023-08-15T17:00:15Z")
Looking at the popup, my first guess would be that maybe you’re just clicking on the wrong thing. To view the contents of a table, simply click the name of the table in the list. That will bring you to the data view.
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### Author:  [@Savegllry](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/Savegllry)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2023, 7:56am UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/problem-phpmyadmin/80866/13 "2023-08-16T07:56:12Z")
Does the infinityfree admin allow management of phpmyadmin outside of the hosting account?
if so, then I’d be looking for the error causing this unable to view the contents of the table.
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### Author:  [@anon90933456](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/anon90933456)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2023, 8:02am UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/problem-phpmyadmin/80866/14 "2023-08-16T08:02:47Z")
MySQL remote access is not available on free hosting, so applications that use our database outside of free hosting won’t work.
> [@Connecting to MySQL from an external application](https://forum.infinityfree.com/docs?topic=49339):
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> Sometimes, you may want to connect to your MySQL database on your free hosting account using external software, like a desktop database manager (like MySQL Workbench) or an external program you wrote yourself (like an Android or iOS app). You cannot connect to a free hosting MySQL database from outside your hosting account. You can only interact with your free hosting database through PHP scripts uploaded to your free hosting account, or through our phpMyAdmin installation. The ability to con…
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### Author:  [@Admin](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/Admin)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2023, 9:42am UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/problem-phpmyadmin/80866/15 "2023-08-16T09:42:35Z")
If you want to manage your database with phpMyAdmin, I recommend to just use our phpMyAdmin installation. If you want to self host a database management interface, I suggest to try Adminer instead, which is much simpler and much easier to make work than phpMyAdmin.
Last time I tried to setup phpMyAdmin on a hosting account, I also wasn’t successful. I think phpMyAdmin doesn’t work well with our database configuration out of the box, which is why our phpMyAdmin installation has some custom modifications.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2023, 9:43am UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/problem-phpmyadmin/80866/16 "2023-08-23T09:43:34Z")
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