Iâm am trying to use Microsoft WebMatrix version 3 to create and publish a WordPress site to an IIS 8.0 server.
I have created the WordPress site from the WebMatrix App Gallery and as part of this process MySQL has been installed locally on my PC.
I have configured the IIS server for Web Deploy. I have created a website in IIS, I would like to publish my new wordpress site to. I also created a remote database on another server which has MySQL server installed. As part of the publish process, I would like the local database to get published to this remote database. As of now, it is an empty database with a valid username and password.
From within IIS, when I create the publish settings file I get the following error:
“Unable to establish a connection to the MySQL database using the supplied connection string. Would you like to add the connection string to the XML settings file”
I click save and proceed.
When I use this settings file to validate the connection inside Web Matrix. I get the following error.
“The remote server connection succeeded, but Microsoft WebMatrix cannot access databases.”
Related info. I have verified that my remote database is available by connecting to it directly from within Web Matrix. The port 3306 is open. I don’t know what else I need. Stumped for several days now 🙁
Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated.
