The following instruction guides you through the process of configuring a HTTP connection.

1. Click or choose File -> New Connection to set up the Connection Properties.
2. Select the HTTP tab and enable Use HTTP Tunnel.
3. Enter URL of the tunneling script.
   
   

   

4. If the tunneling script is hosted in a password protected server or you have to access internet over a proxy server, you can provide the required authentication details.
   
   

   

5. Navicat Report Viewer host name at the General Settings page should be set relatively to the HTTP server in this case. For example: host_of_databaseServer shown below is the host address, which provided by your hosting company, of your remote database server.
   
   Connection Name
   A friendly name to best describe your connection.
   
   Connection Type
   Choose between MySQL and PostgreSQL.
   
   Host name/IP address
   A host where server is located in point of view HTTP server.
   
   Port
   A port of server on Remote Host, by default it is 3306 for MySQL, 5432 for PostgreSQL.
   
   User name
   It is a server user name.
   
   Password
   It is a password of the server user.
   

   

See also:
Advanced Settings