08.21.2019

How to install PHP 5.6 and MySQL 5.7 on Centos

This article guides you how to install PHP 5.6 via remi and install MySQL 5.7 via yum repo

Prepare

yum install epel-release

Install remi repo:
Centos 6

rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm

Centos 7

rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm

Install PHP 5.6

yum --enablerepo=remi,remi-php56 install php php-common php-devel php-mbstring php-mcrypt

Install MySQL 5.7

Centos 6

rpm -ivh https://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql57-community-release-el6-8.noarch.rpm


Centos 7

rpm -ivh https://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql57-community-release-el7-8.noarch.rpm

Install MySQL
yum install mysql-community-server

service mysqld start

Find temporary root password

grep 'temporary password' /var/log/mysqld.log

mysql_secure_installation

Change root  password then enjoy
 

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