On my AWS ec2 server I have docker 1.9.1 installed. In an image test_image based from ubuntu:trusty official docker image, I have tried to setup the LEMP(Linux, Nginx, MySQL, PHP) architecture.

Following is the docker command i have used to start my container:

docker run --name test_1 -d -p 80:80 -p 3306:3306 test_image /bin/sh -c "while true; do echo daemonized docker container; sleep 5000; done"

I have exposed port 80 and 3306 to the host's network interface and have also allowed AWS's security group to allow inbound connections to these ports. Connection type in security group is: MYSQL/Aurora and protocol is: TCP (I know its not very secure, its only for initial implementation. Production setup will be different)

I followed this DigitalOcean tutorial: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-linux-nginx-mysql-php-lemp-stack-on-ubuntu-14-04

After installing Nginx and starting it I am able to test it in the browser via ec2's pubic ip i.e. http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx shows the default nginx welcome page.

While installing MySQL, I followed the following commands in the docker container:

apt-get install mysql-server
mysql_install_db
/etc/init.d/mysql start
mysql_secure_installation

I have given a password to my root user and during mysql_secure_installation i had allowed remote access to root user.

mysql -u root -p command from inside the container connects me to the mysql db but not from outside the container.

Also from my local machine: I tried with mysql-client: mysql -h xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -u root -p

I got the following error: ERROR 2003 (HY000): Can't connect to MySQL server on 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx' (111)

and also through mysql workbench but I still can't connect to the mysql db.

What am I doing wrong?