Question
Remote access to MySQL not working after following a ton of tutorials. What am I missing?
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)
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Have you checked if you have a firewall running
For example in Ubuntu you can run
I think it’s correct. https://i.gyazo.com/185106e96229ea1291646321186324aa.png
That will be it,
The default is to deny all incoming. And you don’t have a rule for MySQL Port 3306.
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
Thank you so much! This solved it.
Your welcome,
Please listen to mine and @Woet advice though and don’t do this.
MySQL is not going to be secured.