i've looked up every tutorial on how to fix this and nothing worked so far, I'm getting this error No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it i'm using linux centos7 mysql version mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.6.32, for Linux (x86_64) using EditLine wrapper blow is my.cnf also i had to create my own my.cnf as when i installed mysql it didn't have one located i put this into etc/my.cnf it's running the cnf as it's taken mysql out of strict mode.
# For advice on how to change settings please see
# http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/server-configuration-defaults.html
# *** DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE. It's a template which will be copied to the
# *** default location during install, and will be replaced if you
# *** upgrade to a newer version of MySQL.
[mysqld]
# Remove leading # and set to the amount of RAM for the most important data
# cache in MySQL. Start at 70% of total RAM for dedicated server, else 10%.
# innodb_buffer_pool_size = 128M
# Remove leading # to turn on a very important data integrity option: logging
# changes to the binary log between backups.
# log_bin
# These are commonly set, remove the # and set as required.
# basedir = .....
# datadir = .....
# port = .....
# server_id = .....
# socket = .....
bind-address = 0.0.0.0
#skip-networking
# Remove leading # to set options mainly useful for reporting servers.
# The server defaults are faster for transactions and fast SELECTs.
# Adjust sizes as needed, experiment to find the optimal values.
# join_buffer_size = 128M
# sort_buffer_size = 2M
# read_rnd_buffer_size = 2M
sql_mode=NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION