How To Install MySQL On CENTOS 7

Below instructions are steps to install mysql server on CentOS 7.

The default replacement for mysql server is MariaDB. MariaDB is a community-developed fork of the MySQL relational database management system. For whatever reasons you might like to install the previous MySQL server, this guide walk you through the process of the installation. The steps:

Setup MySQL repository

[root@localhost ~]# sudo rpm -Uvh http://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql-community-release-el7-5.noarch.rpm

Install Server:

[root@localhost ~]# yum install mysql-server

Start Server:

[root@localhost ~]# systemctl start mysqld

Enable Server on boot:

[root@localhost ~]# systemctl enable mysqld

Change root password:

[root@localhost ~]# mysqladmin -u root password