Openshift and external mysql db with node-mysql ( Error: connect ECONNREFUSED )

Question

I'm using node js app with external mysql database. It work properly from localhost and other hosting but on openshift I've got this error Error: connect ECONNREFUSED.

        var mysql = require('mysql');
        var dbConfig =  {
            host : 'external.mysql.com',
            port : '3306',
            user : 'user',
            password : 'pass',
            database : 'test'
        };

        var connection = mysql.createConnection(dbConfig);
        connection.connect();
        connection.query('SELECT * FROM test ', function(err, rows, fields) {
                    if (err) throw err;
        });
        connection.end();

I'm also tried telnet external.mysql.com 3306 from openshift and it tell telnet: connect to address 12.34.56.78: Connection refused

Maybe there is some additional params for external connection in openshift

Answer 1

You should make port forwarding to connect remotely services on openshift platform.

Here is the official tutorial and video .