title: connecting to remote MySQL server using JDBC issue
body: <p>I am working on a dynamic webapp on eclipse and is trying to access a remote MySQL database. I made sure that all the information is correct. However I can't seem to connect to it. Here's my getConnection method:</p>
  
  <pre><code>public static Connection getConnection() throws SQLException {
          Connection conn = null;
          try{
              Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver").newInstance();
              String url = "jdbc:mysql://50.56.81.42:3306/GUEST_BOOK";
              String user = "username";
              String password = "password";
              conn =  DriverManager.getConnection(url, user, password);
              System.out.println("CONNECTED");
          }catch(ClassNotFoundException e){
              e.printStackTrace();
          }catch(InstantiationException e){
              e.printStackTrace();
          }catch(IllegalAccessException e){
              e.printStackTrace();
          }
              return conn;
  
      }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am trying to see what the error is but because this is a web app, I can't see that system.out.println anywhere, so it's kind of hard for me to debug with this. Any suggestions on how to debug?</p>