Comments on: Allowing network connections to MySQL in OS X Leopard Server

By: Sherwin

Sherwin — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 20:01:06 +0000

hi AlanB,

once you remove or comment out the skip-networking line in the my.cnf file, mysql server will start to accept connections outside of the local network – as long as there is no firewall in the way. the rest is done within mysql where you create a user and host (IP of the remote computer) and give it the permissions it needs. i hope this helps.

i have changed this method of remote connection to my mysql server and started to use SSH. it’s more secure.

By: AlanB

AlanB — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:25:22 +0000

I understand all of this except, how do you add the IP of the computer you’ll be using remotely?

By: Ghost

Ghost — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 20:59:09 +0000

Hey guys,

I picked up 2 Xserve G5′s running Server 10.5 and wanted to use 1 as a webserver and 1 as a dedicated mysql. I am installing joomla 1.6 but i am having a heck of a problem connecting to the machine i am using as a dedicated mysql server during joomla installation. Has anyone ran into any issues doing this? Thanks

By: Miesha Cusmano

Miesha Cusmano — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:03:08 +0000

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By: Sherwin

Sherwin — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:36:52 +0000

thanks for the info evgen but i kept editing files in the /etc directory and was not making any difference until i went in the /private/etc directory. which led me to believe that they are 2 different places.

By: evgen

evgen — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:04:33 +0000

Just FYI, there is no difference between /private/etc and /etc. /etc is a symlink to /private/etc.

By: Sherwin

Sherwin — Thu, 15 May 2008 15:36:15 +0000

Thanks for the comment Avi. I agree, they broke the rules of the config file location. I wish they had better documentation about it. What was odd to me was even if I checked the “Allow network connections” setting, it didn’t change the config file to reflect the new option. I had to manually edit the cnf file. I even posted in Apple’s discussions board and no one was able to help me out. Glad we both figured out our little dilemma.

By: Avi Learner

Avi Learner — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:02:17 +0000

Win – I just set up a new Xserve a couple of days ago and I experienced similar issues. I didn’t need to edit the my.cnf file as you did, but I did see mention of that through my troubleshooting search. It seems Apple broke it’s own rules about where the config files are supposed to live, huh?

At any rate, our WordPress blog and other databases are working like a champ now. It seemed more like a permissions issue to me, but I am not sure exactly what I did to get it working, it just seemed to fix itself!

It’s comforting somehow to see others facing the same problems. I work as an Apple Consultant and am a member of the ACN, so it’s really helpful to find these little tidbits of troubleshooting info from time to time.