Setting postgres for remote access

Created at 2018-02-03 Updated at 2025-09-05 - 1 min. read

Let’s setup postgres which is accessible from remote connection

1. Installation

   1 2	sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install postgresql postgresql-contrib

2. Switch over to the postgres account on your server by typing

   1	sudo -i -u postgres

3. Creating new user is postgres

   1	createuser --interactive

4. Configuring postgresql.conf
   In order to fix this issue we need to find postgresql.conf. In different systems it is located at different place. I usually search for it.

   1 2	find \ -name "postgresql.conf" /var/lib/pgsql/9.6/data/postgresql.conf

   Open postgresql.conf file and replace line

   1	listen_addresses = '*'

5. Now restart postgresql server.

   1	sudo service postgres restart

6. Configuring pg_hba.conf

   1 2 3

   host all all 0.0.0.0/0 md5 host all all ::/0 md5

7. Again restart the postgres
   sudo service postgres restart