root can’t connect remotely to MySQL 5.5
This drove me absolutely nuts. I recently installed CentOS 7 with the typical LAMP configuration. Also, I know. I shouldn’t be using root. I am because it doesn’t matter in this case – it’s not a production machine. I installed MySQL 5.5 and ran the secure installation (mysql_secure_installation). I made sure selinux and firewalld were… Continue reading root can’t connect remotely to MySQL 5.5