I would like to push sensor data from the raspberry pi to localhost phpmyadmin. I understand that I can install the mysql and phpmyadmin on the raspberry pi itself. But what I want is to access my local machine's database in phpmyadmin from the raspberry pi. Would it be possible?
Well, from what I understand, you'd like to save the sensor data arriving in your Raspberry Pi to a database and access it from another machine. What I suggest is, install a mysql db instance and phpmyadmin in your Raspberry Pi and you can access phpmyadmin from another machine in the network by using the RPi's ip address.
Hope this is what you wanted to do.
Sure, as long as they're on the same network and you have granted proper permission, all you have to do is use the proper hostname or IP address of the MySQL server (what you call the local machine). In whatever utility or custom script you have that writes data, use the networked IP address instead of 127.0.0.1 or localhost for the database host.
Depending on how you've installed MySQL, you may not have a user that listens for non-local connections, incoming MySQL connections may be blocked at the firewall, or your MySQL server may not listen for incoming network connections.
You've asked about using phpMyAdmin from the Pi, accessing your other computer, which doesn't seem to make much sense to me (I'd think you'd want to run phpMyAdmin on your desktop computer, not a Pi), but if you've got a GUI and compatible web browser running on the Pi then you'd just have phpMyAdmin and the webserver run on the same desktop computer that has MySQL and access that hostname and folder from the Pi (such as http://192.0.2.15/phpmyadmin).
If you're planning to make the MySQL server itself public-facing, you should really re-think that decision unless you know why that's a bad idea and how to properly secure it (but that may not be a concern; for instance I have one at home that is available on the local network, but my router blocks any incoming connections from external sources).
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I have a set of data rolling out of Node-Red that I want to send to a remote MYSQL database. The Node-Red system is running on a Raspberry Pi. How do I make this work? I know how to it using Node.JS but im not sure how to do this in Node-Red. The IP-adress of the Pi is dynamic so simply authorizing its Ip address does not work sadly.
Thanks in advance!
EDIT for clarification:
I want to connect to a remote MYSQL database that is hosted by my webhosting. I have connected a Raspberry Pi to a battery, and I want to save this information in the aforementioned database. Since there will be several battery setups in different locations, I cannot save the data locally. So, one way or another I need to access the remote database through Node-Red. Authorizing one IP-address does't work, since the IP of the Raspberry Pi network is dynamic and thus changes. I think a SSH-Tunnel might be the solution, but I have no idea how to this in Node-Red, and google isnt very helpful.
OK, so as I said in the comments you can make a Username/Password pair for MySQL can be granted permission to any IP address (which is less secure if the username/password is compromised. Set the host to '%' to allow all hosts when setting up the grant options).
To reduce the risk you can restrict the Username/Password to a specific subnet. This could be a wifi network or the subnet associated to the piblic IP (it needs to be the public range as nearly all cellular ISPs use CGNAT) range of the cellular provider you may be using. (See this question for details How to grant remote access to MySQL for a whole subnet?).
If you want to use a SSH tunnel then this will normally be done outside Node-RED with the ssh command line e.g.
ssh -L localhost:3306:localhost:3306 remote.host.com
Then configure the Node-RED MySQL node to point to localhost.
Since the connection will look like it's coming from localhost on the MySQL machine you need make sure the Username/Password is locked down to a that host.
You will probably also want to set up public/private key authentication for the ssh connection.
You may be able to run the ssh command in the node-red-daemon node, which should restart the connection if it gets dropped.
I'd like to know how to connect the client pc in a outside network for example a WAM network, i have my database in my pc and i use this like the server. I know how to connect mysql with another client computer inside the LAN network but i dont know how to do it like the other way.
if you don't understand something make me know.
PD: sorry for my english is my first question on a english forum
Ultimately it works exactly the same way - you need an IP address and a port to connect to your database on. You can either do this by setting up port-forwarding at the firewall on the network with the database server (basically, forward port 3306 to the LAN IP address), or by giving the database server a publicly available static IP and then opening port 3306 in any firewalls. Alternatively, you can set up a VPN to the network with the database server, and connect through this. If done right, the VPN option is much more secure.
However, you should ask yourself why you want to do this. Is your idea to have a client software that directly connects to the database? This is not a great design - it's usually better to have a backend database that is accessed via a frontend API (e.g. a RESTful API or similar). Among other benefits, this can give you much better (finer-grained) access control to the database.
Your MySql server should have a firewall rule to accept outside connection on MySql port (default is 3306). Best setup should allow connection from your clients WAN address only.
Then, your C# connector will be able to connect just the same as in LAN.
I have a MySql Server 5.7 running as service on one computer of a LAN.
My application is installed and running fine on the same computer. I have 'Shared with everyone' set for the directory where my application is located. In the same directory I have put the libmysql.dll and the FDConnectionDefs.ini files.
My application is running fine on that computer. On the other computers on the LAN I created a link to the directory where my application is shared. When I try to run my application from these LAN systems they produce the error message
[FireDac][Phys][mySql] can't connect to mySql server 127.0.0.1 on port 3306... (10061).
All machines are running Windows 10 on 64 bit processors.
Here what i've tried to resolve the problem:
make sure that the user, password and host (%) are the same in mySql Profile and FDConnectionDefs.ini.
I've tried with different users even with root, i've tried to change host (%) to put the IP address of the computer trying to connect in the mySql profile.
I make sure that i have permissions to run my application and mySql and that the port 3306 is open in the Firewall/Kaspersky on each computer of the LAN. But always the same error message.
127.0.0.1 is a special IP address - the "loopback" address that is typically resolved for localhost on most systems. It is a private internal IP address that a computer can use to refer to itself. It has no meaning to other systems on a LAN since every computer will recognize 127.0.0.1 as meaning itself.
This means that when you are running the application on a remote system it will be trying to connect to a MySQL server running locally rather than on a server elsewhere.
You'll need to configure your FireDac components to connect to the actual LAN IP address that belongs to the system hosting the MySQL server. You will probably also need to make sure that your MySQL users are set up to authenticate from an IP other than localhost.
I created a mySQL database on one machine in my local network. Lets say, I install my application on a friends computer at his house. I have a computer set up as a server running the mySQL database at my house. If that computer is running, how can I make my friends computer send and receive data from the mySQL database on my network?
I am using JDBC and the J connector. I currently can connect to the database with JDBC, so I am currently good with that.
How can I make my friends computer send and receive data from the mySQL database on my network? Will I need a service like Google Cloud SQL or is there any other free way?I also want to make it so that I can email any friend with the program, and they can install it and the program connects to the MySQL server without Andy router extensional. Is a MySQL database even the way to go?
Edit: Basically, I made an MySQL database on a local computer and am able to save data to it from a JDBC program. I want the SQL database to be online so if I send the program to somebody else, they can open it and it accesses the online database. How should I go about making an online SQL database which has no limitations on what IP address accesses it?
Assuming you have a NAT router connecting your local network to the Internet, set up port forwarding on your router to forward port 3306 to the database machine on your network.
Then your friend would specify your router's public IP as the hostname when making the database connection.
In your MySQL configuration, you'll need to create a user username#your-friend's-IP, and grant it access to your your database tables.
A MySQL client (the thing running on your friend's local network) initiates a connection to a MySQL server by requesting a TCP connection on port 3306 (usually).
So your friend's computer has to be able to initiate a connection to your computer. Most home networks have routers between them and the internet service provided. Routers, unless specially configured, ignore attempts to connect from the public internet.
You need to configure your router to pass port 3306 connections through to your computer. Then you need to figure out the ip address by which your internet service provider addresses your router and your friend's router (usually the router user interface will tell you this). Then you need to set up a username / ip address / password triple on your MySQL database authorizing your friend to connect.
Finally, keep in mind that your internet service provider probably assigns both of you dynamic ip addresses; they might change.
Is it possible to do the following?:
I have a local Mac running OS X Lion with a MySQL Server installed which runs different processes regularly and stores data into a local DB.
On the other hand I have an Amazon EC2 instance.
What I would like to do is to use the Amazon instance to perform certain cronjobs (using its own resources) but connecting to the data that is on my localhost (my computer) and performing basic SQL actions like updating the data, inserting, etc.
I don't know if this helps, but I have a static IP. Is there any way I can "open" my IP so the Amazon instance can recognize my home computer as a valid MySQL server?
Thanks for your help, any tip in the right direction will be much appreciated.
If your EC2 instance is connecting to your local db you'll need a static IP locally. Well not need... but if you don't have it anytime you reset your router or loose power etc your ip will change. You can look into Dynamic DNS as well for your local instance.
Your ISP will not block your port on your local instance. This would be a firewall inside your network that is preventing you from connecting to mysql or a configuration with mysql itself. Users can only connect to mysql from certain IP addresses.
You would have to open up the mysql port on your firewall if you are using one, have the mysql client installed on your EC2 instance, and make sure that the user that had proper grantable permissions.
That said why not run cron locally on the mac?
If you can login to your server via SSH then there's no need to open any other port and no static IP is required. You can use SSH port forwarding instead. From your local machine run:
ssh -C -R 5555:127.0.0.1:3306 <your-server-host>
Now you should be able to connect to your Mac's database running on localhost:3306 from the remote server at localhost:5555.