mysql on windows, remote access

Question

I just downloaded and installed MySQL on a windows machine. I will only be using it from the same machine. I would like to make sure that no remote connections can be made to my server. What is the way I should do this? I am using windows. I disabled TCP/IP access altogether but it seems connections through pipes don't work (is this a windows thing?) Thanks.

Answer 1

Make sure your server listens to 127.0.0.1 ip instead of 0.0.0.0

This can either be done by editing my.ini / my.cnf file or by editing the mysql service in windows.

Add following line to your my.ini file in [mysqld] section

bind-address = 127.0.0.1

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