Re: Help! I can't connect my workbench to the server

[Mike Lischke]

Hi Ryan,

this is probably the single most asked question about MySQL. There are plenty of answers out there what to do in such a case. "Can't connect" usually means your server is not running or running on a different address/port or, if the server is running on a remote machine, the network connection is broken/blocked, e.g. by a firewall, different subnets without routing or other reasons.

See also my video about connection creation and troubleshooting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCgRF4KOYIY.

Mike

Mike Lischke, MySQL Developer Tools
Oracle Corporation

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