Any admins in the house?

Edit: This has been resolved as of about 5 min­utes ago. I was finally able to explain to the host­ing dude what I needed…

Can any­one help a cue­less n00b out? I’m at a loss here, and, as they say over at Ask MetaFil­ter, my Google-fu is fail­ing me.

How does one find out if a par­tic­u­lar shared vir­tual host­ing envi­ron­ment has access to MySQL?

I’ve inher­ited co-design/development respon­si­b­li­ties for our church web­site. It’s been set up for ages on the prover­bial “space some­one gave us for free.” It seems like a decent host­ing pack­age — Red Hat linux, Apache server, etc, all the stan­dard “basic” stuff. I’ve been want­ing to change the site from sta­tic brochure-ware to a dynamic, cms-powered site, so MySQL would prove incred­i­bly helpful…

The admin­is­tra­tors of the account seem to think we should have data­base access, but aren’t really famil­iar with the nuts and bolts of it. Of course, there’s noth­ing like Php­MyAd­min in the con­trol panel, and that’s the only way I’ve ever been able to do any­thing database-wise. I’m pretty much a com­plete stranger to the com­mand line, at least in a Linux environment.

I do know Php4 is installed, as I had to set that up from the con­trol panel.

So, it’s a long shot, I know…but any­one have any ideas?

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