I'm following some Android tutorials to make a Google Map app that can be used on a phone and on the web and it involves some PHP and MySQL work that I'm very new to.
I'm using Bitvise SSH Client to connect to my university server and then part of the task is to create a MySQL database with a table in it that can be updated with map coordinates from a user using the web app.
I can edit and view the table and database using the Terminal Console in Bitvise but my question is where on Earth is this database and table stored? When I log into my personal folder on the server, there's nothing there except for the PHP files I've created. I expected to see a /mysql file or similar.
Similar questions have been answered: look in /var/lib/mysql but I don't have such a folder.