My SQL Error: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond

Question

I have a MySQL database in a 3rd party server. I am trying to access it from my local machine using php in dreamweaver. However, I am getting the following error:

Answer 1

It means you cant connect to the server. Check your connecting to the correct ip address and your firewall is configured to allow traffic.

Answer 2

If your using "localhost" also try host name as 127.0.0.1. If its server try from mysql terminal whether that host is connecting from your local machine.

In local machine I have faced same issue with host localhost and changed to 127.0.0.1 then its works well.