Comments on: How Do I Enable Remote Access To MySQL Database Server?

By: swapan paul

swapan paul — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:03:05 +0000

Here it is:
mysql_connect(‘ip address’, ‘admin’, ‘admin’) or die (“Could not connect: “.mysql_error());

By: swapan paul

swapan paul — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:32:04 +0000

Try this:
mysql_connect(, ‘admin’, ‘admin’) or die (“Could not connect: “.mysql_error());

By: subhash

subhash — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:50:04 +0000

How to connect mysql database in php with use the ip address

Thnx in advance

By: Remote database mad

Remote database mad — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:44:51 +0000

Very nice article, the series of comments which has went over here, made many things clears. Thanks for sharing

By: premiso

premiso — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:24:05 +0000

Why do all this…if you have SSH Access, just setup a tunnel, unless you need people without SSH Access to access the database. But an SSH tunnel will be way more secure than opening it up to the world, and you don’t have to do any of this simply:

ssh -L 3307:localhost:3306 you@yourhost.com

Using 3307, incase you have a local MySQL server installed.

By: risdiyanto

risdiyanto — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:11:54 +0000

you can comment bind-address:
#bind-address

to skip networking

By: Asif

Asif — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:54:00 +0000

Hi, I have edited my.cnf according to your Step-3. But while restarting it says “MySQL Daemon failed to start.”. Just for the note, my server is running on amazon ec2. Any idea what went wrong?

By: Rahul Gamit

Rahul Gamit — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 08:14:53 +0000

Sachid: can you please tell me how can i configure without updating my.cnf file ?

By: Kevinal

Kevinal — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 08:56:46 +0000

How to allow multiple users in local network to share a single MySQL database

By: Vijay Kumar

Vijay Kumar — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 13:56:34 +0000

Hello To all,
mysql is work proparly,but for remotly access i make file as you write but after this changes mysql is not start,i am using centos 5
/etc/ini.d/mysqld restart
so please help me.As Soon as possible.

By: Cecil

Cecil — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 04:24:31 +0000

Thanks for this excellently written article. I was going to write my own, but I think I’ll just link to yours.

By: albin

albin — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 09:58:30 +0000

i have configured multiple instance of mysql having new instance port 3307. But am not able to connect to this port from a mysql client. Where should i change the configuration?

By: Caleb

Caleb — Sun, 15 May 2011 23:48:25 +0000

The variable skip-name-resolve will also keep remote access from working. Was pulling my hair out trying to get this to work, comment out that variable and viola.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Wed, 11 May 2011 01:23:33 +0000

everything seem to work fine but Step # 6: Open port 3306

/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp –destination-port 3306 -j ACCEPT ??

By: stephen white

stephen white — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:35:29 +0000

I know this article is not about SSH but I just wanted to mention that those that are confused with these condifuration changes or skittish about doing them can just use an SSH client (I use Putty) and use tunneling to then access MySQL data as ‘localhost’. Keeps everything locked down and I use the MySQL administrator and Query Browser without any issues on a windows 7 machine. I do have a local dev MySQL server running on my machine so I do have to stop that service when I tunnel in to the remote MySQL debian linux machines. If I forget the user/pass’s will trip me up so not a serious mistake waiting to happen :-)

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 12:14:18 +0000

Hi there, I have a query that needs your support.

This is the ERROR I get while creating a NEW SERVER INSTANCE: in Windows.

1.………… error ………………………………………………………………………
Connecting to MySQL server localhost…
Cannot start SSH tunnel manager
Connecting to MySQL server localhost…
Cannot start SSH tunnel manager
Connecting to MySQL server localhost…
Cannot start SSH tunnel manager

……………………………………………………………………………………………

And also

2. ……………………………………………………………………………………………

In order to manage a MYSQL server it must be installed as a service.

The wizard could not find MYSQL service on the target machine, hence
the server instance cannot be created.

……………………………………………………………………………………………

Question

How do I make sure that MYSQL 5.1 is running before I use the MYSQL
Administrator to configure new Server Instance.

I will be grateful to be answered the above question in reference to
the errors the program is giving me in the Windows environment.

By: koniak

koniak — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:43:31 +0000

Hello admin… just U save my life I was found how to access to my mysql BD for the enterily day and finally I found this page… It’s so clear and really helpful so thanks

By: gumuruh

gumuruh — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 10:21:05 +0000

and…. how could I grant all ip address range 192.168.1.20 – 192.168.1.30
to connect into that mysql server?
Don’t say to me repeat that command over 10 times. That’s not the answer, tough.

By: Shaul Amran

Shaul Amran — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 10:09:44 +0000

Thank you for this tutorial!
I followed every single step and it worked!

By: Satya

Satya — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 06:37:32 +0000

Yes ! without configuring /etc/my.cnf aslo it can work . It’ll help to update remote host mysql db .

Best Regards,
Satya.M