Connecting to MySql server from different PC in LAN - mysql

I have a XAMP server configured in a pc where I am running Minecraft servers. I also have a MySQL database that is needed by one of the Minecraft server plugins.
I can access PhpMyAdmin and modify things from the other PCs in my network without problems, but, when my plugin in the other computer tries to run it says that I have no privileges for USERIMUSING#THEOTHERCOMPUTER. In PhpMyAdmin I already gave the users ALL PRIVILEGES in % hosts.
I think the problem is in my SQL, or, I'm not giving the permissions the way I should.
The error is basically I CAN'T ACCESS THIS DATABASE with THIS USER from THIS COMPUTER.

Maybe you have to configure the listening address. By default the mysql-server only listens on the local computer. To change that, see this answer:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/14779244/5781420

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mysql 5.6 installion and configuration on windows

i have installed MySQL server with developer default, I can connect to database with local application, How ever i am not able to connect to database from other system on the network it saying unable to reach database. I access database with root user and password
please give me steps to configure my MySQL server so that i can access database from any system in my network
You will have to create a user allowing him to connect from any host ('user'#'%') and use that user to connect to your MySQL server machine. Also, you'll have to set bind-address of your MySQL configuration to your server machine's IP.
Check the following article. Although it is for Linux environment, you can get the general idea of what is to be done.
https://rtcamp.com/tutorials/mysql/remote-access/

MySQL Workbench works and phpmyadmin does not

About 2-3 weeks ago I stopped using phpmyadmin and started using MySQL Workbench. Now, I can't connect to phpmyadmin. I tried connecting from two different computers and from the server. Tried connecting with at least 4 users and root. I am suspecting that this is Workbench's fault. During the time I used Workbench I made some changes to user privileges, but don't remember the specifics. I get "Wrong username/password".
Any thoughts ?
Looks like some of the comments have been deleted, but judging by what's left there was a suggestion for you to check your permissions for your user with hostname localhost, and it appears you did not understand that % is not the same as localhost. Many installations come with several root users, one for host localhost, one for host %, and sometimes a third for 127.0.0.1. This is normal and part of how MySQL handles permissions. TCP/IP connections match %, socket connections do not (they use localhost).
Another thing that's important to realize is that, when using phpMyAdmin, it doesn't matter what client machine you're using; what matters is what machine is the web server, since that's where the requests to MySQL come from. So you can easily get a bit confused if using a remote machine to connect to a web server running on the same machine via sockets to the MySQL server -- even though you're on a remote machine from the MySQL server, in this case it appears as a localhost connection to MySQL.
Anyway, very likely what happened was you were "cleaning up" extra users and removed one that had the opposite host value (either % or localhost); I'd simply recreate your user with the other host. That should clear it up for you.

How exactly am I accessing the host/server through localhost on phpMyAdmin?

I am working on a school project in which I have to upload data onto a database hosted on phpMyAdmin.
What's confusing me right now is that I see "localhost" at the top of the page and before I even query the database I see "Run SQL query/queries on server "localhost":"
Does this mean that I'm hosting a server on my computer and accessing the database through that? Because then I query for "SHOW VARIABLES WHERE Variable_name = 'hostname';" and it returns with hostname = webhost330. (It is hosted on webhost330.asu.edu).
I'm extremely confused about what this means. Thanks for any possible help.
I'm very new to databases so forgive me if I'm missing something simple here.
EDIT: To clarify: I'm not at school, I'm at my house. What kind of implications does this have? In other words, what's the difference between this and hosting a database locally?
When I host a database on my computer through the MySQL command line client, I can create database information and it's stored on my computer in files. Does this mean that it's initially stored on localhost and then that data is used to create files on my computer?
And then the equivalent of that for the webhost330 is that the localhost stores the database initially but then uploads it to the host at phpMyAdmin? That is the primary thing I'm confused about.
This exactly means what you assumed. When connected to localhost, you are connected to local MySQL server on same machine. Using webhost330.... you are connected to that remote MySQL server instance, if that is not the name of your own machine. Your own server can be webhost30.etcetc.
Edit
If your website is hosted here: webhost330.asu.edu then MySQL host either being webhost330.asu.edu or localhost both mean the same local MySQL server on your very machine.
Edit based on your update
If you are at home, then localhost means you are connected to a MySQL server that you have installed on your own computer. and webhost30.etc.etc means you are connected to the database you have at your school. Database do allow remote connectivity and if you are connected to school from home, that's a remote MySQL connection.
To remove your confusion, you should use only localhost in your code. localhost at home will mean the development server which is your home computer, and when you take the same code to webhost30.etc.etc then localhost for that server will mean its own MySQL installation. So localhost will work everywhere as long as you don't want your code to connect to a remote external MySQL database server.
Assuming you're at school, and assuming you're on your school network. Then yes, your machine is probably "webhost330.asu.edu". At the very least webhost330.asu.edu thinks "webhost330.asu.edu" is localhost.
To see what "localhost" refers to in terms of MySQL server, you have to look at the URL you are using to connect to the web server.
For example, if the URL is
http://localhost/phpmyadmin
and this instance of phpMyAdmin tells me that the MySQL server is on localhost, this means that the MySQL server is on my local workstation.
If the URL is http://example.com/phpmyadmin, then localhost will mean that the MySQL server is on the same machine (example.com).

No "Privileges" in PHPMyAdmin, already tried deleting cookies/using FF/loggin in as 'root'

I'm well aware this has been asked lots of times before but none of the answers so far has been applicable for me or solved the problem.
I want to run SQL Queries from Python using MySQLdb
I get
OperationalError: (1130, "Host '77-172-143-12.ip.telfort.nl' is not
allowed to connect to this MySQL server")
This IP (77-172-143-12) is
for configuring my own router (at home)
I should create a new USER for this
but I don't have the privileges to CREATE USER...s
The Privileges tab is missing from PHPMyAdmin, also when I use Firefox and delete all cookies.
I can't log in
with root and a blank password: I got only one username/login from
my web hosting company when I registered my domain with them.
The
database is on a remote server which I don't manage myself and I seem
not to have any access to any MySQL config files.
How could this possibly be solved?
UPDATE
I understood from the answers that I can't solve this myself since my hosting provider doesn't allow it (by default anyway). I'll contact them to see whether they're willing and able to do something about it.
If somebody else has the same problem: as a workaround I'll keep using my Python routines on my local MySQL database. I'll then use the Wordpress export and import tools to transfer my (updated) local database to the remote server where my website is located. That's not too bad since it will also result in frequent backups of my articles.
It's normal that phpMyAdmin does not show you the Privileges (or Users in recent versions) tab, since you're not privileged.
Usually, on shared servers, hosting providers also use a shared MySQL server, thus they won't allow you root access.
They usually also allow MySQL access only from their web server and not from your home machine, as an additional security measure.
You need to add your hostname (see myip.nl) as a new host in DirectAdmin and then you can connect to the database on a remote server from a local application (Python in this case). See the screenshot below (sorry it's in Dutch!)

Rubyonrails mysql database connection problems

I have a domain name and my rails application.
Is there any way to connect with database without giving the IP address of that host name?
I need what changes are needed in my database.yml file.
The error you're seeing is almost certainly because you don't have a root#localhost user in your mysql database. It has nothing to do with the database configuration file.
You need to add the root#localhost user to your mysql database.
It goes without saying that you should not be using your root user in production and it is probably a good idea not to use it in dev either as it's level of privileges may be hiding some problems.
What errors are you seeing?
If you're asking how to connect to a database without using an IP address, that depends on whether or not your database running on the same machine that's hosting your rails app?
If you're database is on the same machine as your rails app, you can just use localhost as your database host name and that should work (assuming your database is running with the default configurations).