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 ntunnel_mysql.php 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 MySQL host name at the General Settings page should be set relatively to the HTTP server in this case. For example: host_of_mysqldatabase shown below is the host address, which provided by your hosting company, of your remote MySQL database.
   
   Connection Name
   A friendly name to best describe your connection.
   
   Host name/IP address
   A host where MySQL Server is located in point of view HTTP server.
   
   Port
   A port of MySQL Server on Remote Host, by default it is 3306.
   
   User name
   It is a MySQL Server user name.
   
   Password
   It is a password of the MySQL user.
   

   

See also:
Advanced Settings