Question

I am attempting to get my first Django project working, on Windows, but I get an error message that reads:

File "c:\users\[username]\appdata\local\temp\easy_install-pazcre\MySQL_python-1.2.3-py2.7-    win32.egg.tmp\MySQLdb\connections.py", line 187, in __init__     mysql_exceptions.OperationalError: (1045, "Access denied for user 'django_user'@'localhost'     (using password: YES)")

I created my database from the command line as:

-- create the database
CREATE DATABASE GlobalXdb CHARACTER SET utf8;

-- create user
CREATE USER 'django_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'thepassword';

-- give user permissions to db 
GRANT ALL ON django.* TO 'django_user'@'localhost'

My settings.py file contains:

DATABASES = {
'default': {
    'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql', # Add 'postgresql_psycopg2', 'postgresql', 'mysql', 'sqlite3' or 'oracle'.
    'NAME': 'GlobalXdb',                      # Or path to database file if using sqlite3.
    'USER': 'django_user',                      # Not used with sqlite3.
    'PASSWORD': 'thepassword',                  # Not used with sqlite3.
    'HOST': '',                      # Set to empty string for localhost. Not used with sqlite3.
    'PORT': '',                      # Set to empty string for default. Not used with sqlite3.
}

}

Can anyone shed some light on what I have done incorrectly?

Answer 1

Your database is named GlobalXdb and yet in this line…

#give user permissions to db 
GRANT ALL ON django.* TO 'django_user'@'localhost'

you grant permissions to django_user on database named django.

Give permissions to the correct database GlobalXdb should solve your problem.