Unable to connect to my website database

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Hi
I have purchased a web domain and I got these credentials

Host: mywebsite.com.mysql
Database: database name
Username: username
Password: password

I also downloaded the MYSQL database connector
I created a simple table using PHPMyAdmin(provided by the webserver) and I tried writing a simple C# program to connect to the database. But it threw an exception saying
"Unable to connect to any of the specified MYSQL hosts"
Note that I don't know what my server's name is. (I tried the hostname as the server name but same exception).

Posted 2-Nov-11 17:18pm

Megha Sandesh

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Bala Selvanayagam 3-Nov-11 8:11am

Can you please post your connection string for me and also hope that the host is running on linux platform ?

also,please check

The default port number for the MySql Server is 3306 and you may have to make sure that this port is not blocked in your firewall

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Sam Path · Answer 1 · 2011-11-02T17:56:00

Solution 1

Give the Database name,user id,password in the connection strings(Webconfig file)

Posted 2-Nov-11 17:56pm

Sam Path

_Tushar Patil · Answer 2 · 2011-11-02T19:09:00

Solution 2

Check Your Connection String Again................

1)Install MysqlQuery Browser on Your Local machine To Check Connection With database...

Posted 2-Nov-11 19:09pm

_Tushar Patil

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Megha Sandesh 3-Nov-11 10:54am

I installed the browser and tested the connection and it failed. So I tried to ping the server and that too timed out. Any suggestions?

_Tushar Patil 4-Nov-11 0:51am

If server is on local Machine Check the the server is started or not..?

sabbi26 · Answer 3 · 2011-11-02T21:18:00

Solution 3

Check The Server is Started or not if not manually start the server and than try to connect.

Use SqlDataSource Control.by using this you can easily connect to ur server to find the connection string

Posted 2-Nov-11 21:18pm

sabbi26