[support] Database error on migrating site

Jeff jeff at wildcoast.com
Thu Jun 16 16:10:37 UTC 2011


On 16 Jun 2011, at 5:47 PM, Mutuku Ndeti wrote:

> Hellos,
>
> I moved a website from server A to B.
>
> my db connection settings on server A were $db_url =
> 'mysqli://userold:passold@localhost/dbold'; and on the new server
> $db_url = 'mysqli://usernew:passnew@localhost/dbnew';
>
> I am getting a white "under maintenance screen" with error "The mysqli
> error was: Access denied for user 'userold'@'localhost' (using
> password: YES)."
>
> There is no trace of userold in the settings.php file
>
> what could be the problem?


The only thing I can think of:  is did you GRANT permissions to the  
usernew database user?



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