MySQL is an open-source database management system, commonly installed as part of the popular LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Python/Perl) stack. It uses a relational database and SQL (Structured Query Language) to manage its data. Show The short version of the installation is simple: update your package index, install the This tutorial will explain how to install MySQL version 5.7 on a Ubuntu 16.04 server. However, if you’re looking to update an existing MySQL installation to version 5.7, you can read this MySQL 5.7 update guide instead. To follow this tutorial, you will need:
On Ubuntu 16.04, only the latest version of MySQL is included in the APT package repository by default. At the time of writing, that’s MySQL 5.7 To install it, simply update the package index on your server and install the default package with You’ll be prompted to create a root password during the installation. Choose a secure one and make sure you remember it, because you’ll need it later. Next, we’ll finish configuring MySQL. For fresh installations, you’ll want to run the included security script. This changes some of the less secure default options for things like remote root logins and sample users. On older versions of MySQL, you needed to initialize the data directory manually as well, but this is done automatically now. Run the security script. This will prompt you for the root password you created in Step 1. You can press 0 and then 1 to accept the defaults for all the subsequent questions, with the exception of the one that asks if you’d like to change the root password. You just set it in Step 1, so you don’t have to change it now. For a more detailed walkthrough of these options, you can see . To initialize the MySQL data directory, you would use 2 for versions before 5.7.6, and 3 for 5.7.6 and later. However, if you installed MySQL from the Debian distribution, like in Step 1, the data directory was initialized automatically; you don’t have to do anything. If you try running the command anyway, you’ll see the following error: Output Finally, let’s test the MySQL installation. Regardless of how you installed it, MySQL should have started running automatically. To test this, check its status. You’ll see output similar to the following: Output If MySQL isn’t running, you can start it with 4. For an additional check, you can try connecting to the database using the 5 tool, which is a client that lets you run administrative commands. For example, this command says to connect to MySQL as root ( 6), prompt for a password ( 7), and return the version. You should see output similar to this: Output This means MySQL is up and running. You now have a basic MySQL setup installed on your server. Here are a few examples of next steps you can take: |
