[support] New Install Problem: Access Denied

[Jason Flatt]

On Saturday 11 February 2006 12:59 pm, Kory Hamzeh wrote:
> I'm a newbie when it comes to drupal and MySQL, but I've been developing
> software under unix/linux for 20 years. I'm running Fedora Core 4.0,
> MySQL 4.1.11, and installed drupal 4.6.5. I followed all of the steps to
> setup the initial user's list in MySQL, and the steps to create a drupal
> mysql user and database. I have set $db_url in sites/default/setting.php
> to:
>
> Mysql://drupalusername:drupalpassword@fullhostname/drupaldatabasename

If your database is on the same computer as the Web server, you probably want 
"localhost" instead of "fullhostname".

$db_url = 
'mysql://drupalusername:drupalpassword@localhost/drupaldatabasename';

If your database is on a different computer, your grant permissions were 
probably not set to allow the remote Web server to access the database.

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON drupaldatabasename.* TO drupalusername at fullhostname 
IDENTIFIED BY 'drupalpassword';

I suspect you want the first solution rather than the second.

> I've set:
>
> $base_url="http://fullhostname";
>
> Of course these values are changed for the e-mail, but they are the
> correct values as the names imply.
>
> The problem I have is when I point my browser to the drupal directory, I
> get the following error in the browser window:
>
> Access denied for user 'drupaluser'@'fullhostname' (using password: YES)
>

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