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How to separate MySQL Server from LAMP

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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Bobby Iliev
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April 17, 2021
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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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