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Andres Jaimes

How to connect to MySQL from a remote server

In few words, you have to configure MySQL to allow remote connections, create a user for connecting and setup your firewall to allow it. You don’t have to do this if you are only connecting from a local application like WordPress. You need root permissions to perform the following commands.  Configuring MySQL Edit the MySQL configuration file. nano /etc/my.cnf Allow connections from all your network interfaces by commenting out the following line: