I see all over the internet tutorials that are basically saying that setting up the ssh tunnel for mysql is easy, but I get an error, and no joy:
Host key verification failed
This error is in a log file that I created. I am attempting to use PHP's shell_exec on my Ubuntu desktop:
shell_exec('ssh -p 2233 -f -L 3307:127.0.0.1:3306 acct@remote-server.com sleep 60 >> ./ssh.logfile 2>&1');
So, pretty standard according to the internet, but it's not working for me.
1) The remote server is a hosted website. It's a "semi-dedicated" plan, and just a glorified shared hosting