Question

So I’m learning Django (1, 3, 1, ‘final’, 0) through this resource: http://www.djangobook.com/en/2.0/chapter05/

I installed ‘mysql-server’ and ‘python-mysqldb’ via Synaptic. I changed the relevant setting in settings.py.

The book mentioned above tells us to run from the manage.py shell:

>>> from django.db import connection
>>> cursor = connection.cursor()

I get this error after running these commands:

OperationalError: (1044, "Access denied for user ''@'localhost' to database 'mydb'")

  Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/db/backends/__init__.py", line 250, in cursor
    cursor = self.make_debug_cursor(self._cursor())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/db/backends/mysql/base.py", line 322, in _cursor
    self.connection = Database.connect(**kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/MySQLdb/__init__.py", line 81, in Connect
    return Connection(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/MySQLdb/connections.py", line 187, in __init__
    super(Connection, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs2)
OperationalError: (1044, "Access denied for user ''@'localhost' to database 'mydb'")

MySQL did ask me to set a root password when I installed it the first time, would that be utilized here? or is it something else?

Answer 1

Your user does not have an access to database. Use the commands below to set up your database.

DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS `mydb`;
CREATE DATABASE `mydb`
    DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8
    DEFAULT COLLATE utf8_general_ci;

USE 'mysql';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON mydb.* TO 'mydb_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'your_password'

WITH GRANT OPTION;
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Also, you need to have enough privileges to run it. Save it as script.sql then,

$mysql -u root -p < script.sql

Than on to settings.py where you need to make sure your db settings are set up properly

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql',
        'NAME': 'mydb',                  
        'USER': 'mydb_user',             
        'PASSWORD': 'your_password',                  
        'HOST': '',                     
        'PORT': '',                      
    }
}

and

python manage.py syncdb

and you’re done.