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Connect with MySQL database externally from wordpress site

Status: Closed
Prize: $20
Entries Received: 3
Winner: Mahediii

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Contest Brief

EC2 Instance A (Amazon Linux) has MySQL database on MariaDB server.
EC2 Instance B (WordPress) has website pages. Add Code Snippets in WordPress website page to connect with MySQL database running on Linux instance A. Describe a brief process using general terms. Below is the example of snippet code, the info are not correct, its just for ilustration. Add points if any setting or security need to be updated on Linux instance.

<?php
$servername = "ec2-4-147-150-57.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com";
$username = "username";
$password = 'password@123';
$dbname = "database";
$dbport = '3306';

$connect = mysqli_connect($servername, $username, $password, $dbname, $dbport) or die(mysqli_error($connect));

if ($connect)
echo "successfully connected!";
?>

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ahmedabdo1201125
- 2 years ago
Copy the code from the editor and paste it to find out the problem
- 2 years ago
ahmedabdo1201125
- 2 years ago
I can't understand your problem
- 2 years ago