How to connect to an Amazon MySQL RDS instance via PHP over SSL

Question

I have an EC2 instance running a WordPress site. The WordPress db is on a RDS instance. I want to connect to the db over SSL.

From what I\'ve read, the MySQL exten

Answer 1

Turns out this was less complicated than I thought. Turning up the error reporting level uncovered an error in my code that I hadn't caught. Using ssl_set this way works:

$db = mysqli_init();
$db->ssl_set(NULL,NULL,'/path/to/mysql-ssl-ca-cert.pem',NULL,NULL);
$db->real_connect($dbhost,$dbuser,$dbpassword,$dbname);

Answer 2

Try this:

$db = mysqli_init();
$db->ssl_set(null, 'https://rds.amazonaws.com/doc/mysql-ssl-ca-cert.pem', null, null, null);