Installing and configuring MySQL on our VPS
Installing and configuring MySQL is an extremely common task. You can, therefore, find it in prebuilt images or in scripts that build entire stacks for you. A common stack is called the LAMP stack, which stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP, and many VPS providers provide a one-click LAMP stack image.
As we will use Linux and have already installed Apache manually, after installing MySQL, we'll be very close to the traditional LAMP stack; we will just use the P for Python instead of PHP. In keeping with our goal of "education first", we'll install MySQL manually, and configure it through the command line instead of installing a GUI control panel. If you've used MySQL before, feel free to set it up ...
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