Remote access to MySQL not working after following a ton of tutorials. What am I missing?

Posted November 9, 2017
MySQL Firewall Ubuntu 16.04

I’ve changed bind-address to 0.0.0.0 and today changed it to the IP of my server which still doesn’t work. The MySQL user I’m trying to connect with has host set as % and I’ve of course restarted MySQL a bunch of times. To test if the connection works I’m using XAMPP for windows and running “mysql -h SERVERIP -u user -p” to see if I can connect which it cannot. (Error 10060)

Sebastian

Sebastian • November 9, 2017

I think it’s correct. https://i.gyazo.com/185106e96229ea1291646321186324aa.png

Simon Bennett • November 9, 2017

Your welcome,

Please listen to mine and @Woet advice though and don’t do this.

MySQL is not going to be secured.

Sebastian • November 9, 2017

Thank you so much! This solved it.

Simon Bennett • November 9, 2017

That will be it,

The default is to deny all incoming. And you don’t have a rule for MySQL Port 3306.

sudo ufw allow 3306/tcp
sudo service ufw restart

Please note this is not adviced to open MySQL to the whole internet. If you need this and can, you could limit to a fixed IP on the firewall

Simon Bennett • November 9, 2017

Have you checked if you have a firewall running

For example in Ubuntu you can run

sudo ufw status verbose

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Woet • November 9, 2017

Accepted Answer

MySQL is a plaintext protocol, do not expose it to the internet and use it over a SSH tunnel instead.

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