Setting up an election: 0. vote/include/election-sql.php expects a secret config file that exists only on the server and is included as PHP code. It's hard coded currently to: /home/admin/secret/anonvoting currently. The file should look something like this: <?php $mysql_host = "localhost"; $mysql_user = "someuser"; $mysql_password = "somepassword"; $mysql_db = "somedb"; ?> 1. When I deploy, I create an account for the election, as the mysql root user: mysql -u root -p Password: <MYSQLROOTPW> mysql> CREATE USER 'someusername' identified by 'somepassword'; mysql> CREATE DATABASE somedbname; mysql> quit msyql -u root -p -D somedbname < ..../vote/include/schema.sql mysql -u root -p Password: <MYSQLROOTPW> mysql> GRANT SELECT on somedb.elections TO someuser@localhost;