Can't connect to remote database

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Issue Summary

Can’t connect to remote DB from my windows machine. Works perfectly fine from ChromeOS devices.

Troubleshooting Questions

All local sites, but only on my Windows laptop

  • Are you able to create a new, plain WordPress site in Local and access it in a Browser?
    Yes

Replication

I create a database on my Dedicated Server with Liquid Web. I go to Remote Database, and add my IP address allowing this IP to connect to that database.

Then I setup a WordPress install using Local by FlyWheel.

Edit the wp-config.php file with the remote database information.

Try visiting the site, and you get the ol’ “Error establishing a database connection”.

Yes I’ve double, triple, quadruple checked the information, it’s not a typo. I know what I’m doing.

This works perfectly fine on my Chromebox and my Chromebook.

System Details

  • Which version of Local is being used?
    Whatever the latest is

  • What Operating System (OS) and OS version is being used?
    Windows 10 Professionallocal-lightning.log (96.7 KB)

  • Attach the Local Log. See this Community Forum post for instructions on how to do so:

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Any news here?

I got the same problem over and over again :confused:

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Nope, nobody from support has been able to help me with this :confused:

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Sad!!

When i migrate my site to my hosting, it works for me when i connect to a db on another server - it has to be a local issue.

Many people want to do this, they should make as a feature.

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