https://briansnelson.com/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Install_Mysql_Database_Centos_7 2026-06-04T08:59:47Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.24.1 https://briansnelson.com/index.php?title=Install_Mysql_Database_Centos_7&diff=782&oldid=prev 2014-07-09T19:48:22Z

<p>Created page with &quot;==Install Mysql Database on Centos 7== MySQL is a popular choice of database for use in web applications, and is a central component of the widely used LAMP open source web a...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>==Install Mysql Database on Centos 7==<br /> <br /> MySQL is a popular choice of database for use in web applications, and is a central component of the widely used LAMP open source web application software stack (and other 'AMP' stacks). LAMP is an acronym for &quot;Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP/Python.&quot; Free-software-open source projects that require a full-featured database management system often use MySQL.<br /> <br /> Not yet in the repos list, so I had to download the lastest MySQL yum repo for mysql from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/repo/yum/<br /> <br /> At the time of this article it was mysql-community-release-el7-5.noarch.rpm<br /> <br /> ===Install MySQL repo===<br /> <br /> You can download that from our server<br /> <br /> wget http://briansnelson.com/stuff/mysql-community-release-el7-5.noarch.rpm<br /> <br /> yum localinstall mysql-community-release-el7-5.noarch.rpm<br /> <br /> ===Install MySQL via Yum===<br /> <br /> yum install mysql-server mysql<br /> <br /> ===Enable MySQL to start on boot===<br /> <br /> systemctl enable mysqld.service<br /> <br /> You should see something like the following:<br /> <br /> ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/mysqld.service' '/etc/systemd/system/mysql.service'<br /> ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/mysqld.service' '/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/mysqld.service'<br /> <br /> ===Disable MySqL from start on boot===<br /> <br /> systemctl disable mysqld.service<br /> <br /> You should see something like the following:<br /> <br /> rm '/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/mysqld.service'<br /> rm '/etc/systemd/system/mysql.service'<br /> <br /> ===Start/Stop/Restart MySQL===<br /> <br /> Start<br /> systemctl start mysqld.service<br /> <br /> Stop<br /> systemctl stop mysqld.service<br /> <br /> Restart<br /> systemctl restart mysqld.service<br /> <br /> ===Check if MySQL is running===<br /> <br /> systemctl is-active mysqld.service</div>

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