MySQL: How to allow remote connection to mysql

Question

I have installed MySQL Community Edition 5.5 on my local machine and I want to allow remote connections so that I can connect from external source.

How can I do that

Answer 1

Please follow the below mentioned steps inorder to set the wildcard remote access for MySQL User.

(1) Open cmd.

(2) navigate to path C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.X\bin and run this command.

mysql -u root -p

(3) Enter the root password.

(4) Execute the following command to provide the permission.

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'USERNAME'@'IP' IDENTIFIED BY 'PASSWORD';

USERNAME: Username you wish to connect to MySQL server.

IP: Public IP address from where you wish to allow access to MySQL server.

PASSWORD: Password of the username used.

IP can be replaced with % to allow user to connect from any IP address.

(5) Flush the previleges by following command and exit.

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

exit; or \q