Question

Cannot connect to MySQL via Sequel Pro

I am having trouble connecting to MySQL on my new Ubuntu 16.04 droplet via Sequel Pro.

I Installed MySQL via the DigitalOcean tutorial. I set a root password in mysql_secure_installation, then restarted the service.

Checking for status shows the service is running.

My Sequel Pro configuration looks like this:

Configuration

This exact configuration worked on previous droplets, but now I get:

MySQL said: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost'

Note that I don’t have the usual (using password: YES/NO).

All the solutions I found through Google don’t seem to help. They say to comment out bind-adress 127.0.0.1 or set it to bind-adress 0.0.0.0 in the MySQL config then restart, which I’ve done, but I still can’t connect.

What am I doing wrong? This is driving me mad…

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lazlo • March 10, 2017
Accepted Answer

Well, I uninstalled and re-installed MySQL completely, and now it works. Something must have gone wrong in the previous configuration, but now we’ll never know.

Adam Robertson • March 10, 2017

can you ssh in to your droplet, or use the website terminal and connect to your mysql database from that?

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