By Iheb Zanina
Student
i wanna have a server for php + apache2 and another server for MySQL. i installed everything in each server but how can the 2 servers communicate what should i do to let my web app in the apache server communicate with the data base in the other server? TY.
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Hi there,
You will first need to allow remote connections for your MySQL server. You can do that by following the steps here:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-allow-remote-access-to-mysql
After that on your Apache/PHP server you would need to use your MySQL server IP for your database connection strings.
Let me know how it goes. Regards, Bobby
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