Installing Moodle in Centos 5 with mySQL

This is my note on how to prepare for installation moodle in centos 5 ..
via command prompt MySQL command.

1. Enter MySQL command prompt with password :

mysql -u root -p


2. Create Blank database.


mysql> create database edu_namran;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.05 sec)


3. Verify database.

mysql>show databases;


4. create a user

mysql> create user 'someuser' @'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'somepass';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.06 sec)


5. grant user access to db

mysql> GRANT ALL on edu_namran.* to 'someuser'@'localhost';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.04 sec)


6. verify :

[root@fedora html]# mysql -u edunamran -p
Enter password:
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 147
Server version: 5.0.45 Source distribution
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.
mysql> show databases;
+--------------------+
| Database |
+--------------------+
| information_schema |
| edunamran_db |
| test |
+--------------------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)


mysql> use edunamran_db;
Database changed
mysql> show tables;
Empty set (0.00 sec)


7. check the required packaged .. before installing


yum install php-mbstring php-xmlrpc


8. then.. just proceed with the install.php interface under admin section..

Reference :
1. http://www.debuntu.org/how-to-create-a-mysql-database-and-set-privileges-to-a-user