Mysql No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it

Question

I know there are many people already asked this , but this people mostly forgot password of blocked by firewall which I have none of this situations .

I am developing with php , and I need to connect to remote database to let all my team work on it .

localhost was just going fine , but when I tried to switch it gave me this error

No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.

and this is my code where I want to connect to .nf.biz database :

$db=mysqli_connect($host,$user,$password,$db_name,3306);

Answer 1

Well this might be late but for future visitors,

I found out back then that biz.nf refuses any connections to it's DB from outside source which means that only the web-apps hosted on biz.nf have the access to their DB other than that you will get rejected.

Answer 2

Your MySQL server is only accepting connections on *nix socket (/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock if you're running Ubuntu) or for localhost only.

You have to edit your my.cnf (on Ubuntu again is located in /etc/mysql/my.cnf) and change the following:

bind-address = 0.0.0.0

And comment out the following

#skip-networking

Finally restart MySQL.

Be careful with that, if your MySQL machine is accessible from public Internet will be accepting connections from everybody!

Answer 3

Even if this is not your case, I will add the answer here, because the message for this bug is the same.

There is a bug in MySQL server when you have some alias for localhost in c:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts, MySQL server is unable to accept connection to localhost.

Remove the alias and MySQL Server will start to accept connections to localhost.

Answer 4

I do not have the #skip-networking option.

I resolved it by hashing out the bind address line (See 3rd line below).

# Instead of skip-networking the default is now to listen only on
# localhost which is more compatible and is not less secure.**
#bind-address       = 127.0.0.1

Answer 5

I solved just adding the port in bind-address like that: 127.0.0.1:3388

Answer 6

Go to services enable the service named after the root user (under the category "Log On As" -> Network Service)

Answer 7

I fixed this by setting the bind-address in my.cnf to the server's public IP address:

# Instead of skip-networking the default is now to listen only on
# localhost which is more compatible and is not less secure.
bind-address            = SERVER_IP_ADDRESS

Answer 8

This error occurs when the database is not responding.

I resolve this error by following steps:

1. Press CTRL+R then type service.msc. A window opens.
2. Check for MYSQL56 OR MYSQL57, click on that.
3. NOW on the left bottom corner of the window. click on the expand.
4. Again window refresh then u can see the start service option.
5. click on that and the error resolve.

This works for me. hope your error is also resolved. mail me: rkkp1023@gmail.com

Answer 9

Using Wamp (php7) on Windows 10... It is currently working then it suddenly displayed that error. I restarted my laptop and the error is gone...

Answer 10

You have to start you service for the currently active mysql server, like mine was mysql80 so the following steps might help:

start> cmd>run as administrator> sc start mysql80

Answer 11

Your MySQL server is only accepting connections on *nix socket (/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock if you're running Ubuntu) or for localhost only.

You have to edit your my.cnf (on Ubuntu again is located in /etc/mysql/my.cnf) and change the following:

bind-address = 0.0.0.0

And comment out the following

#skip-networking

Finally restart MySQL.

Be careful with that, if your MySQL machine is accessible from public Internet will be accepting connections from everybody!

sudo -s
sudo gedit /etc/mysql/my.cnf
bind-address = 0.0.0.0
#skip-networking
save
sudo service mysql restart

Worked perfect!