You can learn how to connect to your server via SSH by following our tutorial. Download and Prepare the MySQL Repositoryīefore we begin learning how to install MySQL, make sure that either your VPS or dedicated server is running on CentOS 7 and you have root access to it. You can read more about it in their official website.
We recommend keeping that in mind when choosing this OS. While CentOS Linux 7 is still supported, it will reach EOL on. CentOS Linux 8 has reached it’s End of Lifetime (EOL) on.