On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 03:43:59PM +0100, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> Peter
>
> > How are you telling Drupal to connect? MySQL makes a difference
> > between "localhost" and "127.0.0.1" (which is totally bogus).
> > localhost means "connection through the socket" and 127.0.0.1
> > means "connection through the network interface lo0".
>
> Im telling Drupal to connect as localhost but I've also tried
> 127.0.0.1. Still doesn't connect.
>
> > Does the user you're connecting as have access to the drupal
> > database? Did you perform the grant for <username>@localhost or
> > <username>@127.0.0.1? This should match the connection method.
>
> It was grant for <username>@localhost. Maybe I should try
> <username>@127.0.0.1. Maybe I'm being a slow at something here ?
Does the user have a password? What does the database line in
settings.php look like? Did you try connecting as the same user
using the commandline mysql client?
Cheers,
Peter
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