Today my client was facing problem to setup a remote mysql connection. He wanted to connect a database which belongs to another server and domain. Its fairly simple. But most of the tasks remains on the remote server.

Suppose, your remote domain/server is www.remote.com and your scripts are running in mydomain.com. I assume that you already have a database in the remote.com. We just need to access it from remote server. Also assuming that your database name is remoteco_main. Note, all databases & also usernames (for database connection) in cPanel are prefixed by your username of cPanel and _ (underscore). So remoteco in remoteco_main is the username of cPanel. So you have a complete database, username & password setup which works on remote.com.

• Login to cPanel of remote.com.
• Click Manage Remote MySQL Access
• Enter the IP Address of in the box “Host (% wildcard is allowed):“. It’s the IP address where your mydomain.com is hosted. Usually it is the server shared IP unless you have a dedicated IP address. You can also enter the domain name as Host.
• Click Add Hosts
• Now open your database configuration file in mydomain.com. In normal cases,the host was localhost.That is you may get the code as $dbhost=’localhost’ or $db_host=’localhost’.
• Now you need to replace the term localhost with actual domain or IP address. You enter remote.com or the IP of remote.com as host in the database configuration file.

An Example:

<?php

$dbhost=’205.75.28.29′; //ip of the remote.com. you can also put remote.com here.

$dbname = ‘remoteco_db’; //database name

$dbuser= ‘remoteco_main’; //user name to access database

$dbpass = ‘123456′; //password of the database

?>

Thats it, you should now be able to connect to your remote mysql server.

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