How to restart remote MySQL server running on Ubun

Question

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on my machine.

There is on MySQL server situated remotely. I want to restart it.

Can someone please give me in detail step-by-step instructions to restart the MySQL server.

Following are the Database server details of MYSQL I got from phpMyAdmin UI:

Server: Localhost via UNIX socket
Server type: MySQL
Server version: 5.5.40-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 - (Ubuntu)
Protocol version: 10
User: root@localhost
Server charset: UTF-8 Unicode (utf8)

Can someone please help me?

Thanks.

Answer 1

What worked for me on an Amazon EC2 server was

sudo service mysqlid restart

Answer 2

other way is:

systemctl restart mysql

Answer 3

1. SSH into the machine. Using the proper credentials and ip address, ssh root@128.0.0.1. This should provide you with shell access to the Ubuntu server.
2. Restart the mySQL service. sudo service mysql restart should do the job.

If your mySQL service is named something else like mysqld you may have to change the command accordingly or try this: sudo /etc/init.d/mysql restart

Answer 4

sudo service mysql stop;
sudo service mysql start;

If the above process will not work let's check one the given code above you can stop Mysql server and again start server

Answer 5

• To restart mysql use this command

sudo service mysql restart

Or

sudo restart mysql

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