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Asked: 2026-06-08T21:07:57+00:00

I have my dev environment set up as a Ubuntu Server (with LAMP installation)

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I have my dev environment set up as a Ubuntu Server (with LAMP installation) inside a vmware. The vmware is running on my local windows 7 machine. When I try to access my mysql server via HeidiSQL program the connection fails. I get a:

Server Error 2003, can't connect to mysql server on <IP ADRESS HERE>

I can however access the db server via PhpMyAdmin. MySQL is running and my connection credentials and port are all correct.

I read that you should enter the IPs of the computer you are trying to connect from as the “bind address” in the my.cnf file. Which I did. I tried both the internal network IP as well as the online IP. Still no luck, same message.

Since this isn’t a production environment I would ideally like to allow anyone to access that server, not limit it by IP. Especially since my ISP assigns dynamic IPS. So I would have to change it all the time, assuming that even works.

So does anyone know how I can connect to my MySQL server from a remote computer?

P.S. I assume this is something developers have to deal with that’s why I posted it here and not Super User. If it must be migrated please send it to Server Fault not Super User.

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  1. Editorial Team

    For Heidi SQL I was able to get it to work following the instructions on this article:

    http://mysql-tools.com/en/articles/http-tunnel/73-heidisql-a-http-tunnel.html

    It uses a program called HTTP Tunnel. It’s a lot slower but at least it works. If you use Navicat it comes with a PHP file that you can upload to your server and it will connect via that.

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