I need to connect to an SQL database to see how many records it is holding. I cannot access phpmyadmin and no one seems to know the host name or port. All I have is the username and database name.
How can I find the information I need?
If it's on the same computer that you are working on, then the hostname is localhost and the port is default (3306).
...or if you have terminal/console access to the machine the database is running on, run the command:
mysql -u<user> -p<password> -d<database>
to log on to the database.
Find someone, anyone, who can connect to the database you need to connect to.
Then you can examine their setup - and connect to the same place.
Otherwise, you're into port-scanning across the machines in your network. Beware of intrusion detection systems. Be clever about it. And scan your machine(s) first.
if it is on your network you can scan for the default SQL port that Mikhail has referred to.
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I run my service in docker-compose. And MySQL host name is “mysql”, when I develop in my computer, MySQL host name is “localhost”.
Now I want to change my computer MySQL hostname to “mysql”. So I can connect MySQL on my computer by mysql+pool://root:password#mysql/test_db.
Please help me, I find solution spend lots of time.
It is recommended to separate this connection string setting to an environment variable.
If you really want to use mysql, you can modify your OS's hosts file (e.g. for macOS or many linux distros, it should be /etc/hosts).
and put 127.0.0.1 mysql at the end of the file.
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).
Due to security considerations from my provider, I am not able to MySQL Workbench to connect to my database. The only way to access my database is to use phpmyadmin. Because I'm used to use MySQL Workbench and their tools, it is for me much easier to maintain my database. Using phpmyadmin is annoying, so I'm googeling a solution to use anyway MySQL Workbench. Is there a way to break this security consideration or to connect MySQL Workbench through phpmyadmin to gain access to the database?
If your hosting provided did it recently then I am pretty sure it is must be a response to this terrible security flaw discovered in mysql last month. The attack is as simple as running that one line shell command.
Not all OS/MySQL combinations are vulnerable. In case your hosting company was, then for a few moments - all customers
logins were at stake (including the root login).
To answer your question, unfortunately you can not do much in this case. You cannot do any port forwarding tricks even if you have shell(ssh) access because normally port forwarding isn't allowed in shared hosting environments.
In case you want to try, you can run this command on a unix box
$ ssh -L 3306:localhost:3306 username#yoursite.com
If you can login and don't see any errors related to port forwarding, perhaps your can direct your workbench to localhost on port 3306 and theoretically it should work.
If you are using windows you can use putty to do port forwarding as described here.
I think no. Only changing table Users in MySQL you can access from other IPs and hosts. And this table is not accessible by other users.
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).
I'm quite a beginner when it comes to working with networks and the like, so apologizes up front. A while back I set up a mySQL database locally on my machine, and have built a number of simple programs that work with it. (aka root:localhost sort of thing).
This has been great, but I'm now hoping to allow other colleagues at my work to access the database from their machines, but I have no idea how.
Likely there will be some network protection issues (firewalls etc), so that may need to be taken into account... (although I have IT's help on this, neither IT or myself really know what is required to 'connect' to the database).
For example, is it just an IP I need? Do I have to change the setup of my database? I understand that localhost would not work from my colleagues computer's, for obvious reasons, I have no idea what would go in its place for others to access it.
I also do not mind having my machine run as the dedicated database machine... I would not be able to run it off a dedicated server or anything like that, beyond my machine.
Any help would be much appreciated!
Thanks.
First of all, what your colleagues need are:
The IP Address where MySQL server is
running.
User and Password to connect remotely
Have the port 3306 open on the network
A MySQL Client (mysql workbench, mysql query browser, toad, heidi or just the Command Line tool).
When you create user in MySQL the have to be something like this:
'root'#'localhost'
That means, the user will work if you connect from localhost with the user root. So you can create user allowed to connect from anywhere:
'juanperez'#'%'
And finally you have be careful about what privileges are you granting to them. Do not forget to comment a line in the options file of the MySQL that says "bind-address" (this options prevents remote connection).
For example, is it just an IP I need?
Yes. You'll be much happier if you set up proper domain names, but a domain name is just an alias for the IP address.
Do I have to change the setup of my database?
No, but... You have to add some user credentials to support remote logins. That's a change, but not a change to a schema. It's changes to the permissions.
I understand that localhost would not work from my colleagues computer's, for obvious reasons, I have no idea what would go in its place for others to access it.
What MySQL Admin tools are you using? Often there is good help there.
You must read reference manual 4.1 or 5.0
For whatever version is appropriate.
It's very clear.
A user is identified by a username#hostname. You can specify IP addresses (or even "%" for the hostname.
You will use following commandline to connect -
mysql -u<user-id> -p<password> -h<your-hostname-or-ipaddress>
For applications running on different machines trying to connect to your database, you only need to replace 'localhost' with your machine's hostname or ipaddress.
In, general if you are able to ping your machine from a different system, your database can be connected to from that machine, just use whatever name you used for 'pinging' in place of localhost.
Use your workstation IP address or workstation name. You will need to enable remote access. Go to this link for how:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-do-i-enable-remote-access-to-mysql-database-server.html