[BlueOnyx:03399] Re: Shared MySQL - Vsite Deleted

[Dr. Blunt]

Once again as a listener on the forum thank you for
your expertise and allowing me to land softly...
Regards,

At 03:43 PM 1/21/2010, you wrote:
>Dr. Blunt wrote:
> > You are probably correct but I it goes back to the DOS days
> > using Xtree to get around. Perhaps not knowing a site had
> > ~~carte blanche~~  to remove Dbs that was not exclusive
> > to that site was a tough bite to chew. OKay -- I have learned my
> > lesson.
>
>Again, the system has no idea about MySQL databases that are "exclusive"
>or "non-exclusive" to a site.  That's not really a concept BlueOnyx
>deals with.   But when you manually input the details of the database
>into the MySQL configuration of the site under site management, you are
>granting that site control of the database.
>
>This isn't an error or oversight in the system design so much as it is
>(arguably) a failure to understand how the system is designed.
>
>To help clarify in the case of the later, the MySQL configuration there
>on the BlueOnyx Site Admin is really so that there is a way - via the BX
>GUI - to set up a new MySQL database and give a site admin the ability
>to do the same.  (Recall in BlueQuartz there was no provision to create
>a database - that had to be done in a separate step either via CLI or
>3rd party phpMyAdmin.)
>
> > Perhaps a screen pops up and says we are going to delete these files
> > "associated with this site regardless if someone else is using them" ??
>
>Shouldn't that sort of be presumed?  :)   You're deleting the site and
>everything defined by it (users, MySQL, DNS, stored email, web files...)
>
>Since you TOLD BlueOnyx that it has full control of the MySQL database,
>it simply did as it was instructed when you deleted the site.   If you
>had not told BX all the particulars on the MySQL DB, it would have left
>it alone since BX never would have gone looking for it (since it
>wouldn't know what to look for, follow?)
>
>Bottom line:  do NOT enter your manually created database into the MySQL
>configuration of the site management page unless you want to give cce
>complete authority over it.
>
>Hopefully that helps to clear things up a bit.   Happy BlueOnyx-ing!
>
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