I am trying to access a remote SQL Server database from wordpress, but each time the connection attempt fails and I get the following error:
ERROR 2002 - A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not respond properly after a certain amount of time or an established connection failed because the connecting host did not respond.Connection failed!
Although I am sure that the instance of SQL Server is running on the host and accepting TCP/IP connections to the port and I have checked that TCP connections to the port are not blocked by a firewall.