Installing MariaDB on CentOS 7

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The version of the MariaDB server provided in default CentOS repositories is version 5.5.

Follow the steps below to install and secure MariaDB 5.5 on CentOS 7:

  1. Install the MariaDB package using the yum package manager:
yum install mariadb-server

2. Once the installation is complete, start the MariaDB service and enable it to start on boot using the following commands:

systemctl start mariadb
 
systemctl enable mariadb

3. Verify that the installation was successful, check the MariaDB service status by:

systemctl status mariadb

Secure your installation. Run the mysql_secure_installation script which will perform several security related tasks:

mysql_secure_installation

You will be prompted to set up the root user password, remove anonymous user accounts, restrict root user access to the local machine, and remove the test database.

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