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Node js cannot allow to access MySQL on digital ocean

Posted on November 8, 2017

Got the error like this

ER_HOST_NOT_PRIVILEGED: Host …xxx… is not allowed to connect to this my sql server

in the bind address already set to 0.0.0.0

how to allow my node js to access to my sql server



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Try entering the mysql environment on the droplet via mysql -u root -p (mysql root password is usually in /root/.mysql_password or /root/.digitalocean_password).

Then grant privileges to all hosts accessing the database with:

mysql>GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES
ON database.*
TO 'user'@'%'
IDENTIFIED BY 'newpassword';

Then refresh the privileges with:

mysql>FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Source: Similar Question

Replace user and newpassword with what your node app uses.

Hi @lotteve,

The below documentation can guide you with allowing remote access to the MySQL database :

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-allow-remote-access-to-mysql

Regards, Rajkishore

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