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

On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 8:51 PM, Tim Dunphy <bluethu...@gmail.com> 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 Note that their indexes of our content may be out of date.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 admin_...@ec2-xx-xx-xxx-xx.compute-1.amazonaws.com
>
>                |
> +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
> | 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
>
> --
> GPG me!!
>
> gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys F186197B
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