Setup Separate Web and DB server

[ChrisRHS]

Hello all,

I am in the midst of setting up a separate web server (with cpanel installed on it) and mysql server. I am having issues getting WHM to connect to the separated SQL box, what exactly do I need to have installed on the SQL server for WHM to be able to install and connect to it?

Thanks

[cPanelDavidG]

Hello all,

I am in the midst of setting up a separate web server (with cpanel installed on it) and mysql server. I am having issues getting WHM to connect to the separated SQL box, what exactly do I need to have installed on the SQL server for WHM to be able to install and connect to it?

Thanks

The cPanel/WHM server must be able to connect to the MySQL server by means of SSH. Be sure to verify this by SSHing to your cPanel/WHM machine then from that machine, SSH to the MySQL server. Connecting via SSH from your workstation directly to the MySQL server does not prove that the cPanel/WHM server can connect to the MySQL server.

Additionally, MySQL and Perl must already be installed on that server.

[ChrisRHS]

Thank you, I've managed to get some dependencies figured out, and now I am receiving this error:

    root      6609  0.1  0.0  65904  1368 ?        S    22:01   0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/mysqld_safe --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock --log-error=/var/log/mysqld.log --pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
    mysql     6675  0.2  0.3 222952 27552 ?        S

Done
Testing new mysql setup...Failed to connect to the remote mysql host:

/usr/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at '192.168.0.2  ' failed
error: 'Lost connection to MySQL server at 'reading initial communication packet', system error: 113'

[ChrisRHS]

Ok, just an update, I have everything setup now, and it seems to be working (there was an issue with eth: connection to the db), however, I do a couple of small problems / questions. First off, I've had to disable automatic updates, as it seems this breaks the connection for the separate DB server, and the only way to get it back, is to redo the connection. I also have a question with regards to the status monitoring, which MySQL is actually being monitored, as it seems that MySQL is still running on the cPanel installed box, as well as the separated DB server. The third question is, RoundCube reports a db connection error when trying to access it, the other two, do not. Is this a know problem?

cPanel 11.24.2-C32283 - WHM 11.24.2 - X 3.9
CENTOS 5.2 x86_64 on standard