MySQL and MLM

[dysong3]

I would have liked to have controlled the MySQL database for MLM from Filemaker. However my provider impedes MySQL databases located on their servers from communicating outside the server. I imagine this would mean that MLM cannot be used with MySQL. Or is there a work around for this type of situation?

 

[stanbusk]

When you use MLM all mySQL handling is local so I guess you should not have problems with your provider.

 

[dysong3]

That means that the remote database is actually on my computer locally? I'll have to look into all this again, I was convinced it was on the provider's server.

 

[stanbusk]

No, the database and the table are remote. The client that connects to the database is remote as well since it is the script. The script acts like a bridge between you and the table. As a result you are never directly the client of the mySQL database.

 

[dysong3]

OK. I think I get it.

 

[dysong3]

But this does mean however that in my case, even if I can get MLM and MySQL up and running, I can't use Filemaker to interact with the MySQL database because my provider impedes MySQL from communicating to the outside?

 

[stanbusk]

I don't think so. You would have to ask your server to accept external connections, in your case there is no other way.