Setting up mutiple MySQL Database servers on a single linux machine
One of my friend requested to setup two independent MySQL DB servers in his CentOS 5.4 server box. One MySQL (5.0.77) service was already running on the machine, So I had to install another one. Though, I dont recommend running multiple instances on a single server, instead due to cheap hardware you may better setup a MySQL cluster for best performance. In this case, after initial investigation, I’ve found that there are few ways to implement this. The idea of using MySQL Sandbox interested me most. At the end of day, there was two server running simultaneously on the using different ports for connections. Here are the steps, I took to install and configure multiple MySQL servers: