Database Connection error by giving specific IP address

Question

I have created database and user and give all the privileges to the user. When I give the IP as database host, it will show the following errors. Giving database host as localhost it will work fine.

I am using phpmyadmin 3.3.2...

The error message is given below.

Failed to connect to your MySQL database server. MySQL reports the following message: Can't connect to MySQL server on '192.168.85.10' (111)

Answer 1

Definitely MySQL remote access would be blocked.

You can edit MySQL conf to enable it.
Loginto your remote db server and edit main configuration file.

vim /etc/my.cnf (in case of Linux)

Comment out skip-networking by adding # before it, should be located under [mysqld] and update bind-address for the desired IP you are using as connection host.

[mysqld]
...
...
bind-address = 192.168.85.10
#skip-networking