Re: Connecting to my mysql server

[Alexandros Panayi]

Thanks for your reply Barry.

Perhaps this is an extremely stupid question, and I apologize in advance:

1) If my script uses "localhost" as the servername to access the database, and let's say a customer "Bob" from Oregon accesses my website. "Bob" activates the page which runs the script containing the connection to the database "localhost." Would this even work? Since "localhost" pertains to the mysql server on MY webserver, not his.

2) If I want someone else to access my mysql. That person cannot use "localhost" to connect since "localhost" is wired specifically to the user and not globally right? Therefore, that someone would need my servername & password & port number to connect to my mysql server. How do I find that "servername" to allow someone from another device to connect to my mysql?