https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgDBssl


Very cool! Thank you! I'll check this out!

On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 3:37 AM, Benjamin Lees <[email protected]> wrote:

> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgDBssl
>
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 8:51 PM, Tim Dunphy <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> >   I just added a remote database to my media wiki setup. I can access the
> > database from the command line and using that info the wiki site shows up
> > in a browser and works.
> >
> >   But some of the data is sensitive so I need to add an ssl user to
> access
> > the database.
> >
> >  If i add an ssl user to the db, I can also access it from the command
> line
> > of the web server no problem:
> >
> > [root@ops:~] #mysql -uadmin_ssl -p -h db.example.com -e "SHOW DATABASES"
> > Enter password:
> > +--------------------+
> > | Database           |
> > +--------------------+
> > | certs              |
> > | information_schema |
> > | jfwiki             |
> > | mysql              |
> > | performance_schema |
> > +--------------------+
> >
> > But with the ssl user in place in LocalSettings.php, I'm getting this
> > response from the browser:
> >
> > Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties.
> >
> > Try waiting a few minutes and reloading.
> >
> > *(Cannot access the database: Access denied for user
> > 'admin_ssl'@'ec2-xx-xx-xxx-xx.compute-1.amazonaws.com
> > <http://ec2-xx-xx-xxx-xx.compute-1.amazonaws.com>' (using password: YES)
> > (db.example.com <http://db.example.com>))*
> >
> > You can try searching via Google in the meantime.
> > Note that their indexes of our content may be out of date.
> >
> > JF Wiki  WWW
> >
> > This is what the grant for the user looks like in the database:
> >
> > MariaDB [(none)]> show grants for  'admin_ssl'@'
> > ec2-xx-xx-xxx-xx.compute-1.amazonaws.com';
> >
> +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
> > | Grants for [email protected]
> >
> >                |
> >
> +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
> > | GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'admin_ssl'@'
> > ec2-xx-xx-xxx-xx.compute-1.amazonaws.com' IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD
> > '*somePasswordHash' REQUIRE SSL |
> >
> +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
> > 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
> >
> > I was just wondering what I'd need to do to make this work!! All
> > suggestions welcomed.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tim
> >
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