I just got finished installing mysql on my droplet. I have set up and opened ports 80,443,(ssh) without a hiccup. My only problem now is that even though my droplet says that 3306 is open, I can’t connect to it outside of ssh. It says that 3306/tcp is set to allow ANYWHERE but I still can’t connect to it, even after a complete restart.
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What IP address is MySQL listening on?
If 127.0.0.1, then you will have to configure it to listen on all interfaces instead (127.0.0.1 and your droplet’s IP address). Edit
/etc/mysql/my.cnfand setbind-addressto0.0.0.0:Then, restart MySQL:
If you’re the only one who’s going to access MySQL externally, it’s recommended to keep it listening on 127.0.0.1 and using an SSH tunnel instead as it’s much more secure:
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