Installation using FreeBSD ports
Login as root, then to make sure our server’s hostname can be identified locally we need to edit /etc/hosts.
# ee /etc/hosts
::1 localhost localhost.example.com
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.example.com
192.168.1.11 host.example.com
Install MySQL Server with following command.
# cd /usr/ports/databases/mysql56-server
# make -D BUILD_OPTIMIZED install clean
# rehash
After installation finished, run script for installing main database and tables used by MySQL.
# mysql_install_db --user=mysql –basedir=/usr/local/
Run following command to start MySQL daemon and create password for MySQL’s root. # mysqld_safe & # mysqladmin -u root password ’localpassword’ # mysqladmin -u root -h host.example.com password ‘remotepassword’
MySQL has three types of configuration files i.e. my-small.cnf, my-medium.cnf, my-large.cnf, and my-huge.cnf. Copy suitable configuration file to /var/db/mysql.
# cp /usr/local/share/mysql/my-medium.cnf /var/db/mysql/my.cnf
To deactivate MySQL TCP Networking edit MySQL configuration file.
# ee /var/db/mysql/my.cnf
skip-networking
Save and exit text editor.
Test MySQL Server Installation
In order MySQL to start at boot time, edit file /etc/rc.conf
# ee /etc/rc.conf
mysql_enable="YES"
Restart MySQL to apply change in configuration file.
# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server restart
For checking if MySQL is running correctly, run following command.
# mysqlshow –p
If MySQL running then the following output will appear.
+---------------------------+
| Databases |
+---------------------------+
| information_schema |
| mysql |
| test |
+---------------------------+
If there is error then the error log is saved in file /var/db/mysql/host.example.com.err. Check the permission of /tmp directory.
# ls -ld /tmp
drwxrwxrwt 7 root wheel 512 Feb 17 12:00 /tmp
If the output is not the same with line above, repair it with following command.
# chown root:wheel /tmp
# chmod 777 /tmp
# chmod =t /tmp
Installation of MySQL Server is finished.