Basic Slicehost Slice Setup Part 5 - Installing MySQL
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Categories: WordPress, VPS, Blog, DIY, System Administration, LinuxPosted on Sunday, February 22, 2009 by Tim Fehlman
This is part five of our series on configuring a Slicehost slice. Another quick post today.
Step Five – Installing MySQL
sudo aptitude -y install mysql-server mysql-client libmysqlclient15-dev libmysql-ruby1.8
To not use innodb
sudo nano /etc/mysql/my.cnf
Then remove comment # from the skip-innodb line. Save the file.
That’s it!
Part 6
Tomorrow, we are going to get PHP with fastcgi up and running.
Basic Slicehost Slice Setup Series List:
- Part 1 - Updating Ubuntu
- Part 2 - Configure iptables
- Part 3 - Install and Configure OpenSSH
- Part 4 - Install nginx Web Server
- Part 5 - Installing MySQL
- Part 6 - Installing PHP5 with fastcgi
- Part 7 - Create the Virtual Host Website
- Part 8 - Install WordPress via Subversion
Related articles:
- Limiting InnoDB Data Dictionary
- The New MySQL Landscape
- InnoDB is faster, tcmalloc is nice
- InnoDB, MyISAM and disk space

One Response to “Basic Slicehost Slice Setup Part 5 - Installing MySQL”
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miT Says:
February 23rd, 2009 at 9:31 amWhy would an admin not want to include InnoDB?

