title: phpmyadmin for RDS
body: <p>I decided to put an AWS related Q here after having asked on aws dev forum and did not find a solution.</p>
  
  <p>I have also followed the steps given on a repeat question <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4402482/using-phpmyadmin-to-administer-amazon-rds">here</a></p>
  
  <p>Can someone please tell me where I am making the wrong move.</p>
  
  <p>My EC2 instance is in us-west-1c (linux) and has phpmyadmin installed in it.
  My RDS is also in us-west-1c
  My security grp common to EC2 and RDS has http/ssh/mysql ports configured.</p>
  
  <p>I am able to connect to my rds from my instance using mysql_connect() in php,
  but if I give my rds endpoint as a host in phpmyadmin (config.inc.php) it does not respond.</p>
  
  <p>This is how my config.inc.php looks like</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'xx.amazonaws.com';</p>
    
    <p>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['port'] = '3306';</p>
    
    <p>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['socket'] = '';</p>
    
    <p>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type'] = 'tcp';</p>
    
    <p>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension'] = 'mysql';</p>
    
    <p>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['compress'] = true;</p>
    
    <p>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config';</p>
    
    <p>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'xxx';</p>
    
    <p>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = 'xxx';</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Am I missing something here ?</p>
  
  <p>thank you very much in advance</p>