How To Install MyWebSQL on CentOS 7

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install MyWebSQL on CentOS 7. For those of you who didn’t know, MyWebSQL is a powerful web interface designed to help handle all aspects of your MySQL server through a web browser. Made to be fast, easy to use, and readily accessible from anywhere, MyWebSQL allows you to keep track of your databases from any location, through any device. And with support for various MySQL servers, you also don’t need to worry about it supporting the one you are currently using. If you’re looking for a web management tool, but you need something other than phpMyAdmin, then this is a solid choice to go with.

This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of MyWebSQL on a CentOS 7 server.

Prerequisites

• A server running one of the following operating systems: CentOS 7.
• It’s recommended that you use a fresh OS install to prevent any potential issues.
• A non-root sudo user or access to the root user. We recommend acting as a non-root sudo user, however, as you can harm your system if you’re not careful when acting as the root.

Install MyWebSQL on CentOS 7

Step 1. First, let’s start by ensuring your system is up-to-date.

yum clean all
yum install -y epel-release
yum -y update

Step 2. Install the LAMP server.

A CentOS 7 LAMP stack server is required. you need to install the LAMP server with the following link. Also, install the required PHP modules:

yum -y install php-gd php-imap php-ldap php-odbc php-pear php-xml php-xmlrpc php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-mssql php-snmp php-soap php-tidy curl curl-devel

Step 3. Installing MyWebSQL on CentOS 7.

First, download a MyWebSQL package from the terminal using the wget command:

wget https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mywebsql/stable/mywebsql-3.7.zip

Once this is done, we will need to unzip the file into our httpd folder. You can unzip the file by entering this command:

unzip mywebsql-3.7.zip -d /var/www/html

Change ownership and permission of the MyWebSQL follows:

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/mywebsql/
chmod -R 775 /var/www/html/mywebsql/

Restart the Apache web server to take effect:

systemctl restart httpd

Then, You can now test and verify the installation by typing the following in your browser (using your own server IP address): http://your-IP-address/mywebsql/install.php.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed MyWebSQL. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing MyWebSQL in CentOS 7 system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you check the official MyWebSQL website.