Follow These Instructions to Connect to Remote Server hosting Mysql
After spending hours of implementing and testing in hope to connect to a remote server hosting Mysql Databases, the key holds in flushing the privileges in MySQL console. That is it.
How to connect to a remote database server.
Make sure you open up port 3306 on your local machine just to be sure connection is going through.
On remote server, create a database or migrate a database.
Create a user and grant necessary privileges and define an IP Address where the connection will be coming from. GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO root@my_ip IDENTIFIED BY ‘root_password‘ WITH GRANT OPTION;
Make sure you flush the privileges in order for the new rule to take place Make sure, you fill in the blanks with necessary information in order to connect.
Make sure you comment out where it says "bind-address = 127.0.0.1" in mysqld.cnf file, what this does is it makes Mysql Database Engine listens from traffic coming from localhost only, it forget/ignore all traffic from a remote. So comment it out.
Using My SQL-Workbench, Set up New Connection
Give it a name
Select Standard (TCP/IP) method of connection
The hostname should be the remote IP Address
Username should be the one created on remote server Mysql database
Put your password in the box says: "Store in Vault"
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