Allow Remote Access to MariaDB Server on RHEL / CentOS
In this tutorial, I’m going to show how to allow remote access to MariaDB server on RHEL / CentOS. Let’s get started:
Table of Contents
Add New User
Login to your server and then login to MuSQL server:
mysql -u root -p
Now we’ll create a new user with all access:
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'remoteuser'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'new_password' WITH GRANT OPTION;
Hear, '%'
means, user can login from any IP. If you want to give permission to access from a specific IP, you have to do like this:
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'remoteuser'@'192.168.52.43' IDENTIFIED BY 'new_password' WITH GRANT OPTION;
Just replace 192.168.52.43 with your IP.
You can flush the privileges too:
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Open MySQL Port
If you enabled firewall on your server, then you need to open MySQL port. The default port is 3306. I’m opening port on firewalls:
# open port
sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=3306/tcp
# reload
sudo firewall-cmd --reload
Connect to Database
From your server, you can check if remote connection works or not:
mysql -h SERVER_IP_OR_HOST -P 3306 -u remoteuser -p
If everything is okay, you’ll able to login & will see like this:
Welcome to the MariaDB monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MariaDB connection id is 2676
Server version: 10.3.17-MariaDB MariaDB Server
Copyright (c) 2000, 2018, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others.
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.
MariaDB [(none)]>
Configure MariaDB
You can also config MariaDB. The config file’s path:
/etc/my.cnf.d/mariadb-server.cnf
You can bind IP from the config file too. Just comment out this line and set your IP:
bind-address=0.0.0.0
Visit Configuring MariaDB page to learn more about config.
Note
If you failed to login, you can check SELinux status. To check SELinux:
sestatus
If SELinux is enabled, you need to allow webserver to connect to remote database through SELinux:
setsebool -P selinuxuser_mysql_connect_enabled 1
That’s all. Thank you. ?
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