Are you sure that your tunnel is working?
I'm assuming that for some reason SSL is not an option, neither is a VPN.
You should be able to tunnel a database connection through a SSH tunnel.
I've done it many times with different kinds of databases and servers
(although never with MySQL).
Can you p
In the past, when I was creating a php database and needed to test
it, but did not want to open the floodgates and allow any IP address in,
or if I was moving around from place to place
and my IP would change
depending on where I was, tunnelling was an option with some software.
Essentially
Thanks, Bob. I have to confess that I'm not well educated in networking. I'm
a regular guy who uses livecode to facilitate tasks I perform at work.
Here's a wikipedia article (yeah, know its limitations as a reference
source) that includes an explanation of SSH tunneling.
http://en.wikipedia.org/
Help says:
Syntax:
revOpenDatabase("mysql",host[:port], databaseName,
[userName],[password],[useSSL], [socket], [timeout], [autoReconnect])
Notice the new useSSL argument? All you have to do now is determine if the host
accepts SSL connections, and if so, on what port. I am not
I have an app for managing data in a MySQL database on a remote server. It¹s
worked fine for years but now I would like to route the connection thru an
SSH tunnel. It uses a port number other than 3306 (PortNumberHere in the
function example below). So I¹ve changed the relevant function from this..
