Uninstall MySQL on DirectAdmin server

[wdele]

Hi,

Yes, I know there are other topics about them but I don't find them clear so I'm creating my own question.

I have recently moved all my databases to a dedicated MySQL server and I configured DirectAdmin and PHPMyAdmin to work with this. Now I am wondering, is it safe to do a

yum remove mysql mysql-server

and remove the

/var/lib/mysql

folder? As the MySQL is on another server I don't use the one on the DirectAdmin server anymore.

Thanks in advance.

 

[zEitEr]

Hello,

I'd rather stop them without removing. If you want to remove then you'd better limit it to MySQL-server only, as PHP and some other packages need mysql libs.


Note to update /usr/local/directadmin/conf/my.cnf to point directadmin to a remote MySQL server.

 

[wdele]

Thanks for your reply.

Hmmm... I would like a second opinion about that. What you say makes sense but I'm not sure.

Note to update /usr/local/directadmin/conf/my.cnf to point directadmin to a remote MySQL server.

There's no

my.cnf

file there. But everything is already working

 

[zEitEr]

Sorry, that should be /usr/local/directadmin/conf/mysql.conf
Anyway here is a guide: http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=140

 

[wdele]

@AMzEitEr Yeah, I've followed that guide. It's working.
Anyway, I don't need MySQL itself to run php-mysql right?

 

[zEitEr]

On a server I've got the following (your version might differ of course):

[root@server ~]# rpm -qa | grep MySQL
MySQL-shared-5.5.38-1.linux2.6.x86_64
MySQL-server-5.5.38-1.linux2.6.x86_64
MySQL-client-5.5.38-1.linux2.6.x86_64
MySQL-devel-5.5.38-1.linux2.6.x86_64

I'd rather say you need all of them except MySQL-server. Please correct me anybody if I'm wrong.

At least I see this picture:

[root@server ~]#yum whatprovides *libmysqlclient*
...
...
...
MySQL-shared-5.5.38-1.linux2.6.x86_64 : MySQL - Shared libraries
Repo        : installed
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/lib64/libmysqlclient.so.18.0.0
Filename    : /usr/lib64/libmysqlclient.so
Other       : libmysqlclient.so.18()(64bit)
Filename    : /usr/lib64/libmysqlclient_r.so.18
Filename    : /usr/lib64/libmysqlclient.so.18
Filename    : /usr/lib64/libmysqlclient_r.so.18.0.0
Filename    : /usr/lib64/libmysqlclient_r.so






MySQL-devel-5.5.38-1.linux2.6.x86_64 : MySQL - Development header files and
                                     : libraries
Repo        : installed
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/lib64/mysql/libmysqlclient_r.a
Filename    : /usr/lib64/mysql/libmysqlclient.a