SSH Tunneling on Windows HOW-To
What does this do?
This allows you to securely connect to any port on pdc-amd01 from outside or within poly if you want the extra security
1. Download puTTy from here
2. Open puTTy.exe
3. Enter "pdc-amd01.poly.edu" for the Host Name
4. On the left window pane you should see a tab called "SSH", click on the box that contains a plus sign in order to expand it.
5. You should now see an option called "Tunnels". Click it.
6. You should see the following window.
7. Now we will be adding all the ports we want to forward.
For MySQL port forwarding
Source port: 3306
Destination: pdc-amd01.poly.edu:3306
For Oracle port forwarding
Source port: 1522
Destination: pdc-amd01.poly.edu:1522
For Tomcat port forwarding
This depends on which port you setup your tomcat server on.
I'm guessing you already get the point on how to keep adding ports.
8. On the left hand pane you can click on "Session" and save this session so that you do not have to re-enter everything again the next time around.
9. Once saved. You can press "Open" on the bottom right hand corner. This will then open a SSH session.
10. Let say for example I set up MySQL port forwarding. I now want to connect to my database using a MySQL client installed on my machine. The client I will be using is "MySQL Query Browser" in this example.
11. In order to connect to port 3306 on pdc-amd01 I need to tell the MySQL client I'm going to connect to "localhost". The picture below will show you exactly what to enter.
11. Here is an example of me connecting to Oracle using SQLDeveloper.
13. If you are using this method to connect to a tomcat then in the address bar of firefox you would enter "localhost:8081" if you are connecting to a tomcat server on port 8081.