I am trying to migrate an existing MySQL + PHP project (with phpMyAdmin) to server-side javascript (Node.js and Express). I am wondering how best to establish a MySQL connection with Node, given that the current setup is on phpMyAdmin? That is, is it possible to configure the node-mysql connection such that it finds the host on phpMyAdmin?
In case the above is not possible, I would like to allow collaborators access to this database. Setting up remote MySQL connections to my localhost MySQL database seems to be one solution, but I have run into difficulty in following this post for two reasons: How to allow remote connection to mysql.
- An /etc/mysql folder does not exist on my system (cannot find my.cnf)
- Upon granting remote access, I'm unsure how to specify the host and/or ip address for other users that will be connecting remotely to my localhost MySQL db.
