MySQL IP Address Restriction

(Ols) #1

Hi there

I’m using the WPEngine service to host my WordPress website and a MySQL database for which you MUST specify one or more IP Addresses in a whitelisting fashion for incoming connections to port 3306 to be accepted.

Can FlowXO provide such IP Addresses for me to use the service?

With thanks

Oli

(John Jackson) #2

There are really too many unfortunately - we run on AWS. You can try to use their range but it’s massive. I think the only way is to try a different MySQL host, sorry!

(Rama Krishna) #3

John, can you please suggest . even i want to connect to aws RDS from flow? how do i define the IP address there ? I need to allow traffic from Flow to AWS RDS instance ?

(Blake Frederick) #4

I’ve read on another thread that you cannot define an IP address or series of IP addresses because the IP of FlowXO is unpredictable. You have to open up your database to the outside world, which is a bad security practice. I really recommend running your database on a non-common port.