This tutorial explains about installing and configuring Mariadb on RHEL&/Centos7. First add mariadb yum repository. Open file /etc/yum.repos.d/MariaDB.repo and add the following to it. [mariadb] name = MariaDB baseurl = http://yum.mariadb.org/10.0/centos7-amd64 gpgkey=https://yum.mariadb.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-MariaDB gpgcheck=1 yum update -y yum install MariaDB-server MariaDB-client /usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation or simply mysql_secure_installation It will ask you for the current root password. Since [...]