Hi I want to know how to connect mysql server from other machine I have 2 test server running in virtualbox machine installed centOS 6.4 In server (1) I installed mysql server only In server (2) I installed php and apache it was configured for web server use. Since I installed mysql server in different machine how can I link this two machine sothat my webserver will use the other server for the databases, for example server1 mysqlserver ip 192.168.1.52 server2 webserver ip 192.168.1.53 In this instance if I will install any web application for my webserver(server2) mysqlserver(server1) will be used as a central mysql databse server. Please help me for the configuration I need this badly Thanks.....