By jakelunniss
I’m importing my database to a discourse instance on a local environment, and need to connect to my wp database remotely.
host: "REMOTE_HOST_NAME",
username: "DB_USERNAME",
password: "MY_SECURE_PASSWORD",
database: "DB_NAME",
)```
I know the un, pw etc, but I can't figure out what the remote host name would be.
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Hello there,
Database Host – The hostname of your Database Server. A port number, Unix socket file path or pipe may be needed as well.
If the database you want to use is hosted on the same server/droplet you can put the following line in the wp-config.php
- host: "localhost",
If the database is hosted externally you can enter the IP of the remote server, followed by the port of the MySQL instance.
Hope that this helps! Regards, Alex
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