Question

I am just setting up a new VPS learning to setup my own web server and stuck at this pretty basic step.

PHP 5.3.3
MySQL 5.1.61
CentOS release 6.2 (Final)

I can connect to the server using mysql at the command line or remotely using Navicat without issues. I’ve put the host as ‘%’ for testing as localhost wouldn’t work either. I have tried with “localhost”, IP, etc.

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

Users:

+-----------+---------+
| Host      | User    |
+-----------+---------+
| %         | stats   |
| 127.0.0.1 | root    |
| localhost | root    |
+-----------+---------+

My code:

<?php
    $mysqli = new mysqli("localhost", "user", "db", "pw");
?>

Error when running the php script directly from the command line (No web server):

PHP Warning:  mysqli::mysqli(): (28000/1045): Access denied for user 'stats'@'localhost' (using password: YES) in /xxx/db.php on line 5
Connect failed: Access denied for user 'stats'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

The same is returned when running through apache.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

This line:

$mysqli = new mysqli("localhost", "user", "db", "pw");

Should be:

$mysqli = new mysqli("localhost", "user", "pw", "db");

password comes before database name