At the release of version 2.0.1, CyberPanel asked it's users to vote the most need feature and the overwhelming majority voted for the option to use Remote SQL server in CyberPanel. In 2.0.2, remote SQL has been added. This feature is best intended for the people who want to host the database separately from the webserver. If you choose this option during installation, then:
In this guide, we will see the step by step procedure to configure a remote MySQL/MariaDB server.
In case you are using Amazon's RDS or Google's Cloud SQL or Azure's SQL services, you need to make sure that your SQL user has the permission to create new databases. Once that is confirmed, please make sure you have the following information and skip to step 2
Login to your clean server that you want to use for hosting your database.
Run the following command to add the latest version of MariaDB repo to your Linux system irrespective of your OS
sh <(curl https://downloads.mariadb.com/MariaDB/mariadb_repo_setup || wget -O - https://downloads.mariadb.com/MariaDB/mariadb_repo_setup)
For Ubuntu 18/20 use the following command
apt install mariadb-server mariadb-client
For Centos 7
yum install mariadb-server mariadb-client
For Centos 8
dnf install mariadb-server mariadb-client
After the installation is complete, please enable MariaDB so it starts with bootup using the following command
systemctl enable mariadb
Run the following command to secure the installation
sudo mysql_secure_installation
Please set a root password, remove the anonymous account, remove the test database but don't disallow remote root access.
Edit /etc/my.cnf or included configuration files from a sub-directory and change the line with starting with keyword bind to this
bind-address=<your_main_server_IP_here>
Add a firewall rule to allow access to port 3306 from your main server's IP.
Login to your main server ( the server where CyberPanel is to be installed ) and run the following command
mysql -u user_name -h mysql_server_ip -p
Enter the password you selected and it should log you into remote MariaDB installation
Run the installation command here
Now you will be presented with an option on whether you want to install Cyberpanel with Remote MySQL or not, please select Yes by entering Y.
Enter all the details you received or set up in the first part of this tutorial
Continue the installer and it will install CyberPanel with remote MySQL, and all the databases for the websites will be hosted remotely too.
In less than 20 minutes, CyberPanel will be installed on a remote database server.
CyberPanel v1.7.7 and above gives you ability optimize and view MySQL status via platform. Register your self on cloud platform if you haven't already, once registered you need to connect your server from here (Make sure you are on version 1.7.7 or above, you can visit upgrade instructions)
Once your server is connected to platform, visit https://platform.cyberpanel.net/mysql/<Server Name>/status
Replace server name with name of your server in Cloud Platform. You will see something like:
Platform will try to generate recommended configurations depending on detected server ram. Visit: https://platform.cyberpanel.net/mysql/<Server Name>/optmizeMySQL
Replace server name with name of your server in Cloud Platform. Once there click Generate Recommendations. This will generate recommended settings, if you are sure or want to do any custom modifications you can do here, once sure click Apply Changes.
Apply changes will only put new configurations in your my.cnf file, you need to click Restart MySQL to apply these changes. Old configurations will is backed to my.cnf.bak (in case you want to revert to old file).