无法从 AWS EC2 访问 Godaddy 托管的 MySQL 服务器

Question

I have a MySQL server hosted in my Godaddy server. I want to access that database from my EC2 instance. However, I am unable to do so. I have added the public IP of my EC2 instance to the remote MySQL access hosts.

Things I have tried:

1. By using my Godaddy hosted website name as my server name.
   
2. Using my Godaddy hosted website IP address as my server name.

Every time I try to connect, It gives me the error:

Connection failed: Unknown MySQL server host '<hostname>:3306' (11)

Script I used:

<?php
$servername = "<hostname>:3306";
$username = "<username>";
$password = "<password>";
$dbname = "<dbname>";

$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);

if ($conn->connect_error) {
    die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
}
echo "Connected successfully";
?>

PS: I can successfully connect my MySQL workbench and a locally hosted server to my Godaddy database.

Answer 1

Try removing :3306 from $servername

Make sure the arguments are correct. mysqli() needs port as separate argument as described here

Answer 2

According to godaddy you need to enable Allow Direct Database Access for remotely connections.

Link here!