How to access MySQL from a remote computer (not localhost)?

Question

I have my dev environment set up as a Ubuntu Server (with LAMP installation) inside a vmware. The vmware is running on my local windows 7 machine. When I try to access my my

Answer 1

For Heidi SQL I was able to get it to work following the instructions on this article:

http://mysql-tools.com/en/articles/http-tunnel/73-heidisql-a-http-tunnel.html

It uses a program called HTTP Tunnel. It's a lot slower but at least it works. If you use Navicat it comes with a PHP file that you can upload to your server and it will connect via that.