{"id":1098,"date":"2026-05-26T08:51:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T08:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/allowing-remote-mysql-access-in-scout\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T08:51:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T08:51:45","slug":"allowing-remote-mysql-access-in-scout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/allowing-remote-mysql-access-in-scout\/","title":{"rendered":"Allowing remote MySQL access in Scout"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"470\" height=\"470\" src=\"https:\/\/kb.cloudabove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/05\/image-14.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1099\" style=\"width:309px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kb.cloudabove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/05\/image-14.png 470w, https:\/\/kb.cloudabove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/05\/image-14-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/kb.cloudabove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/05\/image-14-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>If you need to allow remote connections to a MySQL database that&#8217;s based on one of your Scout Control Panel servers, simply follow these steps:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Enabling remote access on the database<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Login<\/strong> to Scout<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Navigate to <strong>Databases<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Edit<\/strong> the database you want to provide access too<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Toggle the <strong>Remote access<\/strong> option<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click <strong>Update access<\/strong> to apply the changes<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Allow access to MySQL through the firewall<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You will then also need to either open port <strong>3306<\/strong>, or <strong>allow<\/strong> the remote IPs through in the server&#8217;s firewall settings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Navigate to <strong>Servers<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Open the server&#8217;s <strong>Settings<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select the <strong>Firewall<\/strong> tab<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Allow the remote \/ connecting IP address(es) under <strong>Allowed IPs<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Alternatively, open port <strong>3306<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"banner-warning\">\u26a0\ufe0f Opening port 3306 is a security risk and we would strongly recommend allowing the remote IP address(es) instead. Please also be aware that remote MySQL connections are not typically encrypted. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you need to allow remote connections to a MySQL database that&#8217;s based on one of your Scout Control Panel servers, simply follow these steps: Enabling remote access on the database Login to Scout Navigate to Databases Edit the database you want to provide access too Toggle the Remote access&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-control-panel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1100,"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions\/1100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudabove.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}