I am wondering if any one can tell me the correct method to connect to MySQL Server on my VPS using MySQL Workbench over SSH… I tried earlier and the connection was refused…
I don’t like using phpMyAdmin on a live server!
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The key on a 2 server setup for me was to have the full internal address for the MySQL Hostname, i.e. 127.0.0.1:3306 - without this it just wouldn’t work and it was by a LOT or trial and tests that I managed to get this to work…so: SSH Hostname: xx.xx.xx.x:22 of the DB server, which is also used as the bind address in my.cnf SSH Username: your admin username MySQL Hostname: 127.0.0.1:3306 MySQL Server Port: 3306 Username: whatever LOCAL , i.e. on the same db server, admin user you have set up on MySQL
You can then close it down as needed, e.g. with ufw on Ubuntu etc.
this took a LONG time to figure out so hopefully will save some peeps some time!
If yo’re still having issues with this, see this thread which solved the connection to MySQL Workbench for me: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/trying-to-connect-to-mysql-database-server-through-mysql-workbench-using-ssh?comment=42464
A more secure way would be keeping MySQL on the loopback interface and tunneling port 3306 to your local computer: <a href=“https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-set-up-ssh-tunneling-on-a-vps”>https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-set-up-ssh-tunneling-on-a-vps</a>.