Comments on: How To: remote mySQL access, via SSH port forwarding

By: Jesse

Jesse — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:05:34 +0000

OK problem solved. The port was forwarded to 127.0.0.1 not to localhost. When I configured odbc for 127.0.0.1 instead it worked like a charm.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:44:57 +0000

Beautiful explanation! Unfortunately, my host doesn’t have mySQL running locally either, I get an Access Denied for user@localhost Error. David how did you make a remote tunnel to the mysql server?

PS. I used Putty and it worked fine. There are instructions here http://www.cs.uu.nl/technical/services/ssh/putty/puttyfw.html
I don’t know why I didn’t get the error when using Putty, perhaps Putty somehow alters the originating hostname or something?

By: David

David — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 03:49:04 +0000

This works great, but you can also put the forwarding scheme in your ssh config file, located at ~/.ssh/config, using the directives listed in the man pages for ssh_config. My host, however, doesn't have mySQL running locally, so just forwarding the local port to the remote machine isn't sufficient. Instead, mySQL connections that originate from the server go through another internal hostname on 3308 to the independent mysqld process. That means that I need a remote tunnel to that hostname before I can setup the port forwarding on my local machine. Yay for security! woot. [Edit] - Noticed you weren't passing comments through Textile... ;)

By: Terry

Terry — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:25:30 +0000

Hey, might want to check out Navicat.. its a GUI to mysql (client not a web app) and has several nifty ways to access a remote database.

It supports SSH tunnels (very easy to setup in the program and you dont need an SSH client installed)
It supports uploading a php file to the server which it then integrates with (No ssh? no problem)

I have been using it a while now and have to say I love it, give it a try and you wont have to setup your ssh tunnels anymore just for database access.

By: jar_jar

jar_jar — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 19:06:12 +0000

Very tangential, but so long as you are sshing from your treo, you should really check out pssh. I find it to be a lot more reliable than tussh.