DBeaver error Communication link failure

Published 30th April 2021

Help! DBeaver fails to connect to local MySQL database with the error “Communication link failure”. The problem isn’t with DBeaver, in fact, if you installed another MySQL GUI tool, this issue would still occur. The solution below is for Linux systems and Windows systems running WSL. This post also assumes you already have the correct […]

How to grant full privileges to a user in MySQL

Published 15th June 2020

After setting up a lamp stack development environement with phpmyadmin locally on Linux you may notice that your phpmyadmin user (or other user name) doesn’t have the correct privileges to create new databases. To use the phpmyadmin user to create new databases and users for those databases you need to grant full privileges to the […]

Setup Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), Ubuntu, Apache2, MySQL and PHP

Published 12th June 2019

Windows is now good for development! Yes! All thanks to Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). No more WAMP or Xampp, WSL can do everything you need. In this step by step guide for setting up Windows Subsystem for Linux with Ubuntu, Apache2, MySQL and PHP we will cover: What is Windows Subsystem for Linux? Setting […]