Im trying to gain access to a mysql database hosted by one site from another website.
In short I am in the middle of transferring from one host to another of my website. I have imported my database from host A to host B, and also uploaded my website. Host B is now up and running but I want to keep Host A going for a while until people move over to the new host.
So I want host A to use the db on host B.
I have turned on remote mysql on host B and added the shared ip address of my website of host a. This I believe should allow host a to connect to the db on host B.
I have changed the connection details in my php script to the user,db,password details of the db on host b.
But i'm getting a connection error of cannot connect to db.
I have added my home ip address, created an odbc connection on my pc and used access to connect to the db on host b, with success so I know that host is accepting connections remotely.
I have also tried adding the web address of the my site on host A to the remote mysql, and tried using a open wildcard of '%' hoping that would let any remote connection, but still no look.
Is it possible that host a has blocks on connecting to external mysql databases or am i missing something simple?
Help would be appreciated.