2 years ago

Category: Laravel, Laravel, MySQL, MySQL

I've been writing an artisan command to import data from a remote MySQL database. To start a new SSH tunnel, run the following command: ssh -i./path/to/id_rsa \ root@111.222.333.444 This SSH command was new to me, so I want to describe it in full detail.

-N describes we don't want to execute any remote commands, we just want the port forwarding.

As soon as you stop this command, the SSH tunnel will be closed and you can no longer reach the external database.