How to make mysql accept connections externally

Question

I have a VPS and I want to make mysql DB accept connection externally (from my PC for instance). I have Debian Linux installed on the server. I checked some tutorials online

Answer 1

You also have to change the bind-address to the external ip of your VPS machine (ipconfig would help).

And grant access from your PC. Connect to the database from localhost with root privilege and do:

grant all privilege on *.* to `username`@`your-pc-id` identified by 'your-password'

For more information look through MySQL grant documentation.