MySQL数据库不允许外部连接？

Question

Sorry if this was posted in the wrong area but is there away to get my C# program to connect to my database? It's not allowing outside connections. Can you make your database open to connections? It was installed via Ubuntu 15.04 // PHPMyAdmin

string myConnection = "datasource=my_host;port=3306;username=my_user;password=my_pass";
MySqlConnection myConn = new MySqlConnection(myConnection);

I'm trying to create a game launcher and making it check for a password that is hashed in the database.

Answer 1

Go to your phpMyAdmin website and select the "Users" tab at the top.

Edit Privileges for the user that you want to be able to access the database remotely.

Scroll to the bottom, make sure the host setting is set to any host and the textbox says %.

Hit "Go" at the bottom to save your changes.

Answer 2

Comment out the bind-address in your my.cnf/my.ini (depending on OS). Then restart mysql so that the changes to the my.cnf/my.ini file will take affect. You can read more here at DigitalOcean . Now, anyone will be able to connect to your Mysql database remotely as long as they have proper user credentials.