How to test which port MySQL is running on and whether it can be connected to

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I have installed MySQL and even logged in there as a user    But when I try to connect like this   http   localhost 3306 mysql   localhost 3306   Neither works   Not sure if both are supposed to work  but at least one of them should     How can I make sure that the port is indeed 3306   Is there a linux command to see it somehow  Also  is there a more correct way to try it via a url

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3306 is default port for mysql  Check it with   netstat -nl grep 3306   it should give this result   tcp        0      0 127 0 0 1 3306          0 0 0 0                 LISTEN

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you can use   ps -ef   grep mysql

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For me   joseluisq s answer yielded      ERROR 1045  28000   Access denied for user  root   localhost   using password  NO    But it worked this way     mysql -u root localhost  -e  SHOW GLOBAL VARIABLES LIKE  PORT     --------------- -------    Variable name   Value    --------------- -------    port            3306     --------------- -------

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To find a listener on a port  do this   netstat -tln   You should see a line that looks like this if mysql is indeed listening on that port   tcp        0      0 127 0 0 1 3306              0 0 0 0                     LISTEN         Port 3306 is MySql s default port   To connect  you just have to use whatever client you require  such as the basic mysql client      mysql -h localhost -u user database   Or a url that is interpreted by your library code

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I agree with  bortunac s solution  my conf is mysql specific while netstat will provide you with all the listening ports    Perhaps use both  one to confirm which is port set for mysql and the other to check that the system is listening through that port   My client uses CentOS 6 6 and I have found the my conf file under  etc   so I used   grep port  etc my conf  CentOS 6 6

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A simpler approach for some   If you just want to check if MySQL is on a certain port  you can use the following command in terminal  Tested on mac  3306 is the default port   mysql --host 127 0 0 1 --port 3306  If you successfully log in to the MySQL shell terminal  you re good  This is the output that I get on a successful login   Welcome to the MySQL monitor   Commands end with   or  g  Your MySQL connection id is 9559 Server version  5 6 21 Homebrew  Copyright  c  2000  2014  Oracle and or its affiliates  All rights reserved   Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and or its affiliates  Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners   Type  help   or   h  for help  Type   c  to clear the current input statement   mysql gt

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grep port  etc mysql my cnf   at least in debian ubuntu works    or  netstat -tlpn   grep mysql   verify      bind-address 127 0 0 1   in  etc mysql my cnf to see possible restrictions

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If you are on a system where netstat is not available  e g  RHEL 7 and more recent Debian releases  you can use ss  as below   sudo ss -tlpn   grep mysql   And you ll get something like the following for output   LISTEN     0      50          3306                   users    mysqld  pid 5307 fd 14     The fourth column is Local Address Port  So in this case Mysql is listening on port 3306  the default

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Using Mysql client   mysql gt  SHOW GLOBAL VARIABLES LIKE  PORT

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On a mac os X  there are two options   netstat or lsof  Using netstat will not show the process on Mac OS X   so using netstat you can only search by port  Using lsof will show the process name     I did the following as I was encountering port conflicts  docker containers    netstat -aln   grep 3306  Outputs  tcp46      0      0    3306                                        LISTEN  sudo lsof -i -P   grep -i  LISTEN    grep -i 3306  Outputs  mysqld    60608          mysql   31u  IPv6 0x2ebc4b8d88d9ec6b      0t0    TCP   3306  LISTEN

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Both URLs are incorrect - should be  jdbc mysql   host port database   I thought it went without saying  but connecting to a database with Java requires a JDBC driver   You ll need the MySQL JDBC driver   Maybe you can connect using a socket over TCP IP   Check out the MySQL docs   See http   dev mysql com doc refman 5 0 en connector-j-reference-configuration-properties html  UPDATE    I tried to telnet into MySQL  telnet ip 3306   but it doesn t work   http   lists mysql com win32 253  I think this is what you had in mind

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Try only using -e  --execute  option     mysql -u root -proot -e  SHOW GLOBAL VARIABLES LIKE  PORT                                                                                                           8s 26ms   --------------- -------    Variable name   Value    --------------- -------    port            3306     --------------- -------    Replace root by your  username  and  password

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netstat -tlpn   It will show the list something like below   Active Internet connections  only servers  Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State       PID Program name tcp        0      0 0 0 0 0 22              0 0 0 0                 LISTEN      1393 sshd tcp        0      0 127 0 0 1 25            0 0 0 0                 LISTEN      1859 master tcp        0      0 123 189 192 64 7654     0 0 0 0                 LISTEN      2463 monit tcp        0      0 127 0 0 1 24135         0 0 0 0                 LISTEN      21450 memcached tcp        0      0 127 0 0 1 3306          0 0 0 0                 LISTEN      16781 mysqld   Use as root for all details  The -t option limits the output to TCP connections  -l for listening ports  -p lists the program name and -n shows the numeric version of the port instead of a named version   In this way you can see the process name and the port

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