this is my first attempt at DB replication/configuration, so please bear with me )
the plan appears to be trivial - I have a master machine, running a LAMP-stack website, and I've created a "mirror" on another machine, with another domain name. In quotes, because I haven't set up the DB replication.
NOTE: MySQL version is 5.5 (Linux)
the first step of the official doc got me puzzled (duh): http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/replication-howto-masterbaseconfig.html
it talks about making sure "skip-networking" isn't turned on; this is what I find in my.cnf though:
# Instead of skip-networking the default is now to listen only on
# localhost which is more compatible and is not less secure.
bind-address = 127.0.0.1
this is equivalent to 'skip-entworking', as far as I understand -- but I'm not exactly sure what to do next. The comment on the doc tells that the address should be matched to that of the slave - but I'm suspicious; what of there are multiple slaves, with different IPs? Not my case, sure, but I'll just admit that I don't fully understand this 'bind address' thing; e.g., it being set to localhost IP, will changing it prevent local connection? Can someone please be so kind as to enlighten me on this subject? Thank in advance!