How to allow remote connection to mysql database in Mac's MAMP - mysql

Question

I have a MySQL database in my Mac using MAMP. I need to connect to this database using PHP script from a remote server with IP for example 184.173.9.... I have been trying this for 2 days now with no luck.
I tried some forum where they asked to comment out skip-networking and use bind-address with remote server's IP in my.cnf file in MAMP. Firstly I wasn't finding the my.cnf file in MAMP but eventually found one from Library/support-files/my-medium.cnf. I copied it and placed in tmp/mysql/my.cnf. But nothing works.
I also turned off the firewall in System Preferences/Security & Privacy.
The php code I am using to connect looks like this:
mysql_connect('176.249.200....:3306', 'test', 'test') or die(mysql_error());
Could you please suggest me what else I am missing?

Answer 1

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON database.* TO 'user'#'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'newpassword';
% is a wildcard ,where we connect our MySQL server from any IP address.
you can also do '%.domain.com' or '%.10.10.10' ( for a specific Ip or domain address).
flush privileges for the changes to take effect.
MySql port 3306 is free to be accessed remotely; So we need to bind IP address in the MySQL config file.
vi /etc/mysql/my.cnf
In the file, search for the [mysqld] section block and add the new bind address bind-address = 127.0.0.1
comment it and add your Ip address.
if your Local Ip address changes randomly then use bind-address = 0.0.0.0
Then the last step is to restart the MySql server.
Login in to mysql server in your terminal as
mysql -u usename -p -A -h youripaddress
-A `Reading table information for completion of table and column names
You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A
note : first ping your ip Address. and see the if any drops and latency issue.
I use this below piece of code to connect MySQL server in php.
$conn = '';
try {
$conn = new PDO("mysql:host=ipaddress;dbname=databasename", 'userName', 'password');
}
catch(PDOException $e)
{
echo "Connection failed: " . $e->getMessage();
}

Answer 2

Here is the output:
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON . TO 'test'#'%' IDENTIFI...
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON test.* TO 'test'#'%'
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON easytask.* TO 'test'#'%'...
IP address 184.173.9.... is a dedicated remote server where I have the PHP script. And 176.249.200.... is my local IP, 3306 is MySQL port.

Answer 3

First make sure it connects (you should be getting a connection denied and not a timeout/connection error) . You can test that by executing:
mysql -h ip.addr.goes.here -p -u test
if it can't connect, then it is either a firewall issue or a config issue.
If it connects and permission is denied, then it is probably a grant issue. create a user then grant access to the table
CREATE USER 'dbusername'#'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'some_pass';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'dbusername'#'%'
Note, you a user will get access locally if you replace % with localhost, from a specific ip if you specify the ip or only remotely if you specify %. more details on the mysql page http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/adding-users.html
after that, flush privileges to make sure they come in action:
flush privileges