“Connect failed: Access denied for user 'root&

Question

I wrote some function used by a php webpage, in order to interact with a mysql database. When I test them on my server I get this error:

"Connect failed: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)" 

I am able to use them on my pc (using XAMPP) and I can navigate through the tables of the database using the command line in the server. However, the webpage fails to connect. I've checked the password but with no results. It's correct (otherwise I could not log in to mysql from the command line).

The call of the function is the following:

$conn = new mysqli("localhost", "root", "password", "shop");

Do I have to set something in my server? Thanks

Edit: PHP version 5.3.3-7+squeeze1 mysql version: 5.1.49-3 both on debian

Answer 1

Easy.

open xampp control panel -> Config -> my.ini edit with notepad. now add this below [mysqld]

skip-grant-tables

Save. Start apache and mysql.

I hope help you

Answer 2

I solved in this way: I logged in with root username

mysql -u root -p -h localhost

I created a new user with

CREATE USER 'francesco'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'some_pass';

then I created the database

CREATE DATABASE shop;

I granted privileges for new user for this database

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON shop.* TO 'francesco'@'localhost';

Then I logged out root and logged in new user

quit;
mysql -u francesco -p -h localhost

I rebuilt my database using a script

source shop.sql;

And that's it.. Now from php works without problems with the call

 $conn = new mysqli("localhost", "francesco", "some_pass", "shop");

Thanks to all for your time :)

Answer 3

TIP:

comment out pid and socket file, if you can't connect to server.. mysql could be connecting with incorrect pid and/or socket file, so when you try to connect to server trough command-line it "looks" at the incorrect pid/socket file...

### comment out pid and socket file, if you can't connect to server..
#pid-file=/var/run/mysql/mysqld.pid
#socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock

Answer 4

Edit your privileges on PHPmyAdmin (WAMP), Note that your password and user name has not been created. So do create or edit it, that it might work with your sql connection in your php. Hope it works

Answer 5

From what you've said so far, it sounds like a problem where the MySQL driver in PHP5.3 has trouble connecting to the older MySQL version 4.1. Have a look on http://www.bitshop.com/Blogs/tabid/95/EntryId/67/PHP-mysqlnd-cannot-connect-to-MySQL-4-1-using-old-authentication.aspx

There's a similar question here with some useful answers, Cannot connect to MySQL 4.1+ using old authentication

SELECT `User`, `Host`, Length(`Password`) FROM mysql.user

This will return 16 for accounts with old passwords and 41 for accounts with new passwords (and 0 for accounts with no password at all, you might want to take care of those as well). Either use the user managements tools of the MySQL front end (if there are any) or

SET PASSWORD FOR 'User'@'Host'=PASSWORD('yourpassword');
FLUSH Privileges

Answer 6

Most likely it is not identifying your user properly. root@localhost. Select the Mysql version your MAMP is using.

/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysqldump -uroot -p db_name > test_db_dump.sql

I actually wrote an alias on my computer so I don't have to remember how to get to the bin directory.

alias mysqldumpMAMP='/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysqldump'

Which allows me to run this:

mysqldumpMAMP -uroot -p db_name > test_db_dump.sql

You can save an alias in your bash profile ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_rc