Question
I have installed MySQL Community Edition 5.5 on my local machine and I want to allow remote connections so that I can connect from external source.
How can I do that?
Answer
That is allowed by default on MySQL.
What is disabled by default is remote root access. If you want to enable
that, run this SQL command locally:
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'password' WITH GRANT OPTION;
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
And then find the following line and comment it out in your my.cnf file,
which usually lives on /etc/mysql/my.cnf on Unix/OSX systems. In some cases
the location for the file is /etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/mysqld.cnf).
If it's a Windows system, you can find it in the MySQL installation directory,
usually something like C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.5\ and the
filename will be my.ini.
Change line
bind-address = 127.0.0.1
to
#bind-address = 127.0.0.1
And restart the MySQL server (Unix/OSX, and [Windows](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12972434/restart-mysql-server- on-windows-7)) for the changes to take effect.
