By shanescott
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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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
Basically you’ll need to have MySQL service listen to the public IP for remote connections since by default it listens on the loopback adapter. <br> <br>Look at these two posts that might answer your question: <br>https://digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-to-create-a-secure-connection-for-workbench-to-mysql <br>https://digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-to-allow-remote-mysql-database-connection
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