MySQL 8 silent installation on Windows 11

In this post I am going to show you how to install MySQL 8.* version on a windows 11 machine. For this post I am going to use MySQL 8.4 version.

Open windows Command Prompt with administrative privileges. 

Step 1: To install MySQL 8.4 version, we need to have visual studio 2019 x64 redistributable installed in our Windows 11 machine. So first we will install this prerequisite: 

Download visual studio 2019 x64 redistributable from the URL:

https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/c7707d68-d6ce-4479-973e-e2a3dc4341fe/1AD7988C17663CC742B01BEF1A6DF2ED1741173009579AD50A94434E54F56073/VC_redist.x64.exe

Install visual studio 2019 x64 redistributable silently from the command prompt:

VC_redist.x64.exe /q /norestart

Step 2: Create MySQL data directory, in this directory MySQL database going to reside:

mkdir C:\ProgramData\MySQL\Data

Step 3: Create a directory to store MySQL config file:

mkdir C:\ProgramData\MySQL\Config

Step 4: Create mysql.ini config file inside C:\ProgramData\MySQL\Config folder:

[client]

port=3306

[mysql]

no-beep

[mysqld]

port=3306

datadir=C:/ProgramData/MySQL/Data

default-storage-engine=INNODB

lower_case_table_names=1

Step 5: Install MySQL silently 

mysql-8.4.0-winx64.msi /qn INSTALLDIR="C:\Program Files\MySQL"

Step 6: Create MySQL Windows Service:

"C:\Program Files\MySQL\bin\mysqld" --install MySQL --defaults-file=C:\ProgramData\MySQL\Config\mysql.ini

Step 7: Initialize MYSQL

"C:\Program Files\MySQL\bin\mysqld" --defaults-file=C:\ProgramData\MySQL\Config\mysql.ini  --initialize-insecure

Step 8: Add MySQL Path to environment variable:

setx /M PATH "%PATH%;C:\Program Files\MySQL\bin"

Step 9: Start MySQL service:

net start MySQL

We can add the above commands in a script and run that script as admin user to make this installation completely silent.