I have two droplets. One is our website droplet and the second is the MySQL database droplet. Using the website droplet console I am trying to test the connection to the MySQL database droplet. I type mysql -u root -h hostname -p. I got an error message "Access denied for user root @ vital-c.net (using password: YES).
Any advice???
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This question was answered by @asb:
In additon to @sierracircle’s suggestion, you might also want to check out the tutorial “How To Set Up a Remote Database to Optimize Site Performance with MySQL.” While it uses WordPress as the example, it should point you in the right direction for setting up a MySql server to be connected to remotely even if you are using something else.
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