Remote connect to clearDB heroku database

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9822313/remote-connect-to-cleardb-heroku-database/18413171

Asked 7 years, 10 months agoActive Viewed 65k times9432

How can i perform a remote connect to ClearDB MySQL database on heroku using for example MySQL Query Browser. Where to get url, port, login and password? asked Mar 22 '12 at 12:294,2521212 gold badges3636 silver badges7373 bronze badges

12 Answers

171

In heroku website, go to My Apps and select the app on which you have installed ClearDB.

On the top corner click on Addons and then select ClearDB MySQL Database. Once there, click on your database and choose the 'Endpoint Information' tab. There you see your username/password. The URL to the database can be acquired by running heroku config --app <YOUR-APP-NAME> in the command line.

In my case, it was something like: mysql://user:pass@us-cdbr-east.cleardb.com/DATABASE?reconnect=true What you need is this part: us-cdbr-east.cleardb.com♦111 silver badgeanswered Apr 27 '12 at 20:592,76811 gold badge1919 silver badges2323 bronze badges

11You can also see this directly on the Heroku dashboard/website, just go to your app, click "Settings" and "Reveal config vars". –
1In my case at least, the us-cdbr-east.cleardb.com equivalent part was not the name of the database but rather the name of the host. The database name was however found on the dashboard for the ClearDB addon. –
1you'll need to export your local database file to the database created by Heroku. Just follow this video and you'll be good to go –

You run heroku config to get the CLEARDB_DATABASE_URL and it should be something of this format:

CLEARDB_DATABASE_URL => mysql://[username]:[password]@[host]/[database name]?reconnect=true

So basically you just look at your own url and get all you want from there. That's how i set up mysql workbench.6,04233 gold badges3030 silver badges5050 bronze badgesanswered Jul 26 '12 at 9:5186111 gold badge77 silver badges99 bronze badges

3Thank you @Andrei but what about the port for the database? –
2@BKSpurgeon. I got it to work with phpMyAdmin with the default port (See ) –
This is much simpler :) –
Thank you so much Mr. It helps me deploy my mysql file to heroku successfully –
@AbhishekDivekar your comment helped me a lot. I just changed the username and some stuff on a congig.inc.php file in my xamp and it worked on PHPMyAdmin. –

Paste this command in terminal

  heroku config | grep CLEARDB_DATABASE_URL

After this you will get Database URL. e.g this is your cleardb database URL.

'mysql://b0600ea495asds:9cd2b111@us-cdbr-hirone-west-
 06.cleardb.net/heroku_4a1dc3673c4114d?reconnect=true'

Than this will be your database credentials. (Extracted from Above URL)

USER NAME = b0600ea495asds

PASSWORD = 9cd2b111

HOST = us-cdbr-hirone-west- 06.cleardb.net

I did a video explaining how to connect to MySql using NodeJS on a Heroku server, take a look:

This is the code in case you want to see:

Here is part of the code:

var express = require("express");
var mysql      = require('mysql');
var app = express();
app.use(express.logger());

var connection = mysql.createConnection({
  host     : 'us-cdbr-east-04.cleardb.com',
  user     : 'b6d6c6e874',
  password : 'b3f7###',
  database : 'heroku_1daa39da0'
});

connection.connect();

app.get('/', function(request, response) {
  connection.query('SELECT * from t_users', function(err, rows, fields) {
      if (err) {
        console.log('error: ', err);
        throw err;
      }
      response.send(['Hello World!!!! HOLA MUNDO!!!!', rows]);
    });
});

var port = process.env.PORT || 5000;
app.listen(port, function() {
  console.log("Listening on " + port);
});

Paste this inside terminal:

heroku config | grep CLEARDB_DATABASE_URL

You can use this one-liner to connect to your MySQL database in your terminal.

$(ruby -e 'require "uri"; uri = URI.parse(ARGV[0]); puts "mysql -u#{uri.user} -p#{uri.password} -h#{uri.host} -D#{uri.path.gsub("/", "")}"' `heroku config:get CLEARDB_DATABASE_URL`)

If you are using mySQL workbench, follow this schema. Go to Heroku > Your Applications Settings > Config Vars, and show the long URL. That url includes your username, password, the URL of the database and the default schema. Paste all of the information as follows below, and you will be able to successfully connect to the database. There was no real explaination on how to connect to ClearDB using mySQL workbench on this thread, so hopefully this helps someone who was struggling.

Go to your app on heroku and click to the 'settings' tab. Then click the button on the second option that says 'reveal config vars'.

You should find, listed under the CLEARDB_DATABASE_URL variable, something like this...

mysql://[username]:[password]@[host]/[database name]?reconnect=true

So the [host portion] is your host. The [database name] portion is your db name, of course.

You still need your username and password. Go back to the 'overview' tab in heroku. Go to the ClearDB add-on in your installed add-ons section. Click the database you want to access (probably only 1 option there). Click the 'system information' tab. You should see your username and password.

should consider getting the credentials of vars in heroku configurations (Config Vars):

PreviousHow to make connection to heroku mysql database NextHướng dẫn deploy project Laravel của bạn lên Heroku

Last updated 5 years ago

Was this helpful?