I have, let's say, a root website with mysql db on a remote server.
I want to connect to that particular database (to make queries), from many other little websites (with lower priviledges).
Can this be done?
Language: jsp, java, php
Any particular problem? Just specify server address instead of 'localhost' in connection string.
You can also create dedicated user with minimal privileges for that.
The default configuration often contains a variable
skip-networking
which you need to comment-out in order to have networking enabled.
Yes it can be done, MySQL allows connections from remote hosts (assuming MySQL is configured to allow network connections and assuming the remote hosts are granted). In case of problem, the section 5.4.7. Causes of Access-Denied Errors lists most common problems and solutions.
In addition to the answers from Nikita Rybak andPascal Thivent, I'd like to note that most hosting providers don't allow queries from locations other than localhost.
I don't know how much access you have to the server configuration, but I would have saved myself a headache a while back when I first started experimenting with connections across domains/servers.
If the MySQL server is under your control, it's not difficult; you can find the procedure here. If it's not, the only thing you can do is beg the admin to do it, otherwise it's impossible.
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I am new to Oracle, and am trying to run a simple example code with Java, but am getting this error when executing the code.. I am able to start up the listener via CMD and am also able to run SQL Plus. Can anyone give me a hand and tell me what I might be doing wrong?
Update:
I am using JDBC.
Database is local, and I actually had it working but it stopped working just today. I'm not really sure why though. Would you mind giving me some procedures to follow by since I don't know much.
Either:
The database isn't running
You got the URL wrong
There is a firewall in the way.
(This strange error message is produced by Oracle's JDBC driver when it can't connect to the database server. 'Network adapter' appears to refer to some component of their code, which isn't very useful. Real network adapters (NICs) don't establish connections at all: TCP protocol stacks do that. It would have been a lot more useful if they had just let the original ConnectException be thrown, or at least used its error message and let it appear in the stack trace.)
I had the same problem, and this is how I fixed it.
I was using the wrong port for my connection.
private final String DB_URL = "jdbc:oracle:thin:#localhost:1521:orcll"; // 1521 my wrong port
go to your localhost
(my localhost address) : https://localhost:1158/em
login
user name
password
connect as --> normal
Below 'General' click on LISTENER_localhost
look at you port number
Net Address (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=localhost)(PORT=1522))
Connect to port 1522
Edit you connection
change port 1521 to 1522.
done
Another thing you might want to check that the listener.ora file matches the way you are trying to connect to the DB. If you were connecting via a localhost reference and your listener.ora file got changed from:
HOST = localhost
to
HOST = 192.168.XX.XX
then this can cause the error that you had unless you update your hosts file to accommodate for this. Someone might have made this change to allow for remote connections to the DB from other machines.
I figured out that in my case, my database was in different subnet than the subnet from where i was trying to access the db.
I had this error when i renamed the pc in the windows-properties. The pc-name must be updated in the listener.ora-file
Most probably you have listener configured wrongly, the hostname you specify in connection string must be the same as in the listener.
First check the Firewall and network related issues.
Check if Oracle Listener service is available and running. If not you may use Oracle Net Configuration Assistant tool to add and register new listener.
If the above steps are ok then you need to configure Oracle Listener appropriately. You may use Oracle Net Manager tool or edit “%ORACLE_HOME%\network\admin\listener.ora” file manually.
There are 2 options that need to be considered carefully:
Listening Locations associated with the Listener – Hostname(IP) and Port in Listening Location must exactly match the ones used in the connection string.
For example, if you use 192.168.74.139 as target hostname, then there must be Listening Location registered with the same IP address.
Also make sure the you use the same SID as indicated in Database Service associated with the Listener.
https://adhoctuts.com/fix-oracle-io-error-the-network-adapter-could-not-establish-the-connection-error/
IO Error: The Network Adapter could not establish the connection (CONNECTION_ID=iKQM6lBbSLiArrYuDqud8A==)
if you are facing this issue
1- make sure you have downloaded oracle databases like oracle 11g,19c, 21c, or any latest databases.
2- search for services in your computer or type win+r then services.mis then search for oracleservice you will find orcl or xe or any other sid like oracleserviceorcl;
after that you can test your connection using sql developer, sql plus or cmd
To resolve the Network Adapter Error I had to remove the - in the name of the computer name.
In my case, I needed to specify a viahost and viauser. Worth trying if you're in a complex system. :)
For me the basic oracle only was not installed. Please ensure you have oracle installed and then try checking host and port.
I was having issues with this as well. I was using the jdbc connection string to connect to the database. The hostname was incorrectly configured in the string. I am using Mac, and the same string was being used on Windows machines without an issue. On my connection string, I had to make sure that I had the full url with the appending "organizationname.com" to the end of the hostname.
Hope this helps.
Just try to re-create connection. In my situation one of jdbc connection stopped working for no reason. From console sqlplus was working ok.
It took me 2 hours to realize that If i create the same connection - it works.
I am new to Oracle, and am trying to run a simple example code with Java, but am getting this error when executing the code.. I am able to start up the listener via CMD and am also able to run SQL Plus. Can anyone give me a hand and tell me what I might be doing wrong?
Update:
I am using JDBC.
Database is local, and I actually had it working but it stopped working just today. I'm not really sure why though. Would you mind giving me some procedures to follow by since I don't know much.
Either:
The database isn't running
You got the URL wrong
There is a firewall in the way.
(This strange error message is produced by Oracle's JDBC driver when it can't connect to the database server. 'Network adapter' appears to refer to some component of their code, which isn't very useful. Real network adapters (NICs) don't establish connections at all: TCP protocol stacks do that. It would have been a lot more useful if they had just let the original ConnectException be thrown, or at least used its error message and let it appear in the stack trace.)
I had the same problem, and this is how I fixed it.
I was using the wrong port for my connection.
private final String DB_URL = "jdbc:oracle:thin:#localhost:1521:orcll"; // 1521 my wrong port
go to your localhost
(my localhost address) : https://localhost:1158/em
login
user name
password
connect as --> normal
Below 'General' click on LISTENER_localhost
look at you port number
Net Address (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=localhost)(PORT=1522))
Connect to port 1522
Edit you connection
change port 1521 to 1522.
done
Another thing you might want to check that the listener.ora file matches the way you are trying to connect to the DB. If you were connecting via a localhost reference and your listener.ora file got changed from:
HOST = localhost
to
HOST = 192.168.XX.XX
then this can cause the error that you had unless you update your hosts file to accommodate for this. Someone might have made this change to allow for remote connections to the DB from other machines.
I figured out that in my case, my database was in different subnet than the subnet from where i was trying to access the db.
I had this error when i renamed the pc in the windows-properties. The pc-name must be updated in the listener.ora-file
Most probably you have listener configured wrongly, the hostname you specify in connection string must be the same as in the listener.
First check the Firewall and network related issues.
Check if Oracle Listener service is available and running. If not you may use Oracle Net Configuration Assistant tool to add and register new listener.
If the above steps are ok then you need to configure Oracle Listener appropriately. You may use Oracle Net Manager tool or edit “%ORACLE_HOME%\network\admin\listener.ora” file manually.
There are 2 options that need to be considered carefully:
Listening Locations associated with the Listener – Hostname(IP) and Port in Listening Location must exactly match the ones used in the connection string.
For example, if you use 192.168.74.139 as target hostname, then there must be Listening Location registered with the same IP address.
Also make sure the you use the same SID as indicated in Database Service associated with the Listener.
https://adhoctuts.com/fix-oracle-io-error-the-network-adapter-could-not-establish-the-connection-error/
IO Error: The Network Adapter could not establish the connection (CONNECTION_ID=iKQM6lBbSLiArrYuDqud8A==)
if you are facing this issue
1- make sure you have downloaded oracle databases like oracle 11g,19c, 21c, or any latest databases.
2- search for services in your computer or type win+r then services.mis then search for oracleservice you will find orcl or xe or any other sid like oracleserviceorcl;
after that you can test your connection using sql developer, sql plus or cmd
To resolve the Network Adapter Error I had to remove the - in the name of the computer name.
In my case, I needed to specify a viahost and viauser. Worth trying if you're in a complex system. :)
For me the basic oracle only was not installed. Please ensure you have oracle installed and then try checking host and port.
I was having issues with this as well. I was using the jdbc connection string to connect to the database. The hostname was incorrectly configured in the string. I am using Mac, and the same string was being used on Windows machines without an issue. On my connection string, I had to make sure that I had the full url with the appending "organizationname.com" to the end of the hostname.
Hope this helps.
Just try to re-create connection. In my situation one of jdbc connection stopped working for no reason. From console sqlplus was working ok.
It took me 2 hours to realize that If i create the same connection - it works.
I have always used a database located in my pc, so the steps to connect to it are:
connect to my local db using jdbc
perform queries
show results
now, i want to know what are the steps if the database is located in an online server?
some guides,tutorials are very appreciated.
Since you will be connecting to a remote database I would advise you to read about secure connections using JDBC. See this question, for example. You don't want to interact with a remote database without something like SSL to protect the confidentiality of the data.
Once you think you have secured your connection, you can use a tool like Wireshark to make sure that the packets that are going to and coming from your database are in fact opaque.
Furthermore, as others have said, not much changes if you already have a working connection to a local database, it's a matter of changing your URL from jdbc:mysql://localhost:port/database to jdbc:mysql://ipaddress:port/database.
From my experience, I found that some hosting companies block database access from unknown IP addresses, so it's possible that you'll have to go to your CPanel and whitelist your IP address.
Once your database connection is setup, the code you use to query the database should look the same.
Some useful links:
JDBC Best practices
JDBC Tutorials from Oracle
You have to change database url only to be like
jdbc:mysql://IP:3306/databasename
also username and password.
some hosting company like godaddy create database in localhost(in the same host) which doesn't need to change anything in your code.
I'm developing a Java Swing based app which uses JDBC to connect to a MySQL database. As such, the software directly remotely access the database from whichever computer it happens to be running on. Additionally, the app uses prepared statements to query the database and the database is hosted on a shared CPanel hosting account (if that matters).
The snippet of code I use to connect to the database is as follows (fairly standard connect code I think and all strings in all caps contain the correct contents):
String url = "jdbc:mysql://URL:PORT/DB_NAME?connectTimeout=3000";
Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection(url, USERNAME, PASSWORD);
I have only ever successfully used the app from one IP. Before I use the app from an IP, I have to manually whitelist the IP by adding it as an allowed remote MySQL access host. If I don't add the IP as an allowed access host, the server refuses my connection and I get the resultant error:
com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.CommunicationsException: Communications link failure
The last packet sent successfully to the server was 0 milliseconds ago. The driver has not received any packets from the server.
Then if I whitelist an IP and try to connect from it, I don't get that error and the app connects to the database properly.
This system would be okay if the app were only going to be used from one IP, but it needs to work from any IP since I cannot predict who will download and use it. The only solution I see would be to do a global whitelist of all IPs in the allowed MySQL access hosts area. However, that seems like it has many drawbacks, such as being insecure as anyone who has the correct password could log in (and would thus be susceptible to brute force attacks). This seems to corroborate the hypothesis that that method is insecure. Thus, I would like to have a system of communicating between the app and database that is IP-independent (doesn't require whitelisting all the IPs).
Additionally (I don't know if this makes sense or matters), but I believe some of the areas I expect the app to be used in block certain protocols. Thus, (I think) I would like it if the selected method of communication only used HTTP or some other widely-used protocol.
I did some research into this problem and my efforts led me to 2-tier and n-tier models of database communication. Perhaps I could do something like make a PHP page which accepts a statement and a series of parameters (plus a password to gain entry), executes the statement, and then returns the result back as JSON. However, this seems like another less-than-ideal method as it seems like it would also have security problems.
I'm sure someone more experienced and knowledgeable than I has already come across this problem and developed a solution.
Therefore, my question: What is the preferred method of connecting to a MySQL database from a Java app in an IP-independent way?
I greatly appreciate and thank you for your time.
You're on the right track:
1) If you want any arbitrary client to connect directly to your database, and the clients can have any arbitrary IP address ... then you're probably going to have to effectly disable IP security be whitelisting all possible client IP addresses.
2) On the other hand, if you only allow local access to mySql (by far the most common scenario), then you can create a web app to interface between your clients and mySql.
SUGGESTION:
Consider creating a "REST" web service that your clients can talk to.
Here's a good tutorial that might help you get started:
REST with Java (JAX-RS) using Jersey - Tutorial
Q: Does your Swing app really need to emit "raw SQL"? Or can it make "high level" queries? REST is ideally suited for the latter.
PS:
Here's another, short example that might help suggest some design alternatives with REST, mySQL and Java for you:
http://www.9lessons.info/2012/09/restful-web-services-api-using-java-and.html
You are up against the policies -- primarily the security policies -- of your hosting provider. It's generally considered insecure to allow port 3306 (MySQL) connections from the whole internet. It certainly lays your MySQL server open to trivial denial-of-service attacks. (It just takes some knucklehead controlling a botnet to send in lots of port 3306 connection attempts. They don't even have to be successful connection attempts.) If you're sharing your MySQL server with other customers of your hosting provider, they have every incentive to restrict your remote access to their server.
Most folks who build database applications for deployment on the public internet do it by providing web services to hit the database with the specific operations required by the application. The application deployed at the end-user's machine then uses HTTP (or HTTPS for security) to access those web services. In turn the web services access the database. That's what multitier operations do. You're right that there are security problems, but you can mitigate them with careful development of your web service code.
You could use SSH tunneling to handle your database access. The SSH suite of remote-access applications allows port forwarding. To use this, you would establish (authenticated and encrypted) ssh connections between your end-users' machines and your database machine, that forward port 3306. Then your users could connect to localhost:3306, and that net traffic would be forwarded to your database server. It's pretty flexible and quite secure, if not completely simple to configure.
You might also investigate using SQL Relay. It's generally used for connection pooling and management within a data center network, but it might work for this purpose.
Be careful opening up your MySQL server to the world! If you do that you may want to require the use of TLS encrypted conections.
I am making an application which have to be used in different pc's, and it has to share the same database. I have no idea how to do it. I am using the java as programming language and mysql as database. Please help me to do this task...
Use JDBC and connect all your app to one MySql DB Server
The way to talk to a database in Java is JDBC.
See http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/jdbc/index.html for a good tutorial on how to use it.
On server-side you should create user which will be granted privileges to access your database from different foreign hosts:
GRANT ALL ON *.* TO 'someuser'#'somehost';
Read more here: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/grant.html
On client-side you should configure database connection to use host where your database is installed. Read JDBC API reference for details.
Does a client-server model not work for you? If you have somewhere to host a server the normal method accomplishing something like this is to encapsulate your database behind the server and all clients connect to your server to exchange information.
You have a variety of options for communicating between the clients and the server:
Your server could be a simple web app where your clients all make URL calls to the server to accomplish various tasks. Implementing REST or SOAP would make the calls even easier if you're doing anything non-trivial.
RMI if your not going over the internet makes things really easy (you can get the basics of RMI in a few hours of reading).
Assuming you have the network connectivity, you can also just have each client make their own connection directly to the database. But only do this if you are on a safe intranet only.