External MySQL

[Trankery]

Hello.

I just quickly wanted to ask how I'd get access to my Lamp Stack's DB from outside (minecraft server).

I've opened the 3306 port in ufw and I edited the my.cnf.

Still can't reach it. What do I have to do?

[girish]

@Trankery The mysql that is allocated to apps is run as a separate container (named mysql) and is not accessible from the outside directly. Instead, what you can do is to use the CLI tool to access it - https://cloudron.io/documentation/custom-apps/addons/#mysql

May I ask why you want to access it from outside? I can probably give a better solution depending on the use case. But if you want to access from your laptop/PC:

1. Install the CLI tool - https://cloudron.io/documentation/custom-apps/cli/

2. cloudron exec

   # mysql --user=${CLOUDRON_MYSQL_USERNAME} --password=${CLOUDRON_MYSQL_PASSWORD} --host=${CLOUDRON_MYSQL_HOST} ${CLOUDRON_MYSQL_DATABASE}
   
   mysql> this is the mysql shell
   

[Trankery]

As I said, a minecraft server needs to access it.

[Trankery]

Am I able to open this container to the outside?

I don't really mind about security too much here.

[girish]

There is no easy way to make the internal mysql server public without changing the code and I don't know what that will break.

I think you can setup a ssh tunnel between your minecraft server and the Cloudron.

Something like https://www.linode.com/docs/databases/mysql/create-an-ssh-tunnel-for-mysql-remote-access/

Do this on Cloudron:

docker inspect mysql | grep IPAddress
                    "IPAddress": "172.18.0.4",

So, 172.18.0.4 is the IP of mysql server. Then, you can get the db credentials using the web terminal of the LAMP app:

    env | grep CLOUDRON_MYSQL_

You can then connect using the above credentials as:

mysql --host=172.18.0.4 --user=<username> --password=<password> <db>

After the above works, you just setup SSH tunnel accordingly.