By default, MySQL allows other services on the computer you’re running the daemon to connect to the database and denies any connections from hosts outside that computer. However, it’s pretty easy to provide access to the database from another host (for example, if you’re splitting up the back-end and front-end of a site, clustering, etc. To get started, you’ll edit your my.cnf file and find the [mysqld] section of the file. Then, locate the bind-address, which you will need to set as the IP of your server and comment out the line for skip-networking. Let’s say we’re going to open access for 192.168.2.2. The section would look similar to the…