So a friend of mine and I are using both xampp on ubuntu, if that helps, to connect between each other\'s website, We both created the same php file to connect, so we use de
Check you have enabled remote access to the MySQL server. Open the my.cnf file (probably found inside xampp/etc/), go to the [mysqld] section and add the following (using your own ip address instead of the example)
bind-address=192.168.1.100
If there is a line that says skip-networking, comment that out so it looks like this:
# skip-networking
then restart the MySQL server