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Connecting to Linode DB from my localhost

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I'm trying to do this but always get refused. In virtualmin I added my own IP address under "remote hosts". As "host" value in my PHP connection script I just use the IP address of my Linode.

Should this work in theory?

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By default MySQL binds to 127.0.0.1, meaning only local connections are allowed, regardless of what's in your privileges table.

2 other things to check.

1) Make sure you don't have skip-networking set in your /etc/my.cnf

2) Make sure your firewall allows incoming connections to mysql (port 3306)

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