Question

I have a script set up on a site which is a static shoutbox page for people to leave comments etc.

Everthing /was/ working fine. I have set up my constants in my shoutbox.php file as such;

define("HOST", "localhost"); 
define("USER", "shout1");
define("PASSWORD", "xxxxxxxx"); 
define("DB", "shout1");

My database is called shout1 and the user name assigned to it is the same. I have created a table on that database called shoutbox which has 4 entries of id (INT), date, user (VARCHAR) & message (VARCHAR) which I believe is fine.

When I go to the domain in question http://p4blo.it/shoutbox I get the error mentioned in the title advising that access is denied @localhost for shout1

Any ideas? I have double and triple checked, deleted DB and tables, recreated etc.

EDIT: Forgot to mention, user shout1 has been assigned access with FULL privileges to database shout1

Answer 1

Looks like your host runs with cPanel. In cPanel you have to be carefull with your user and database names, since they are prefixed with your cPanel-username. Eg. if your cPanel-username is “p4blo” then the database is called “p4blo_shout1” and the username “p4blo_shout1”.