MySQL repeated denials on multiple hosts

Question

I have tried everything I can think of...going from my localhost to another servers host (which also uses localhost since I am using ftp on their servers apparently), and I still keep getting the error: Warning: mysqli::mysqli() [mysqli.mysqli]: (28000/1045): Access denied for user '(censored)_zxq'@'192.168.1.1' (using password: YES) in /www/zxq.net/a/p/p/(censored)/htdocs/lib.php on line 6 Connect failed: Access denied for user '(censored)_zxq'@'192.168.1.1' (using password: YES)

I have tried multiple hosts with mysql support too...I keep getting that error and I know that my credentials are right. AND I have given permissions to the database as well to the user. Any suggestions? (ps. I censored the important information to me)

<?php
$server = 'localhost';
$login = '792981_kputts';
$password = 'whatup4u';
$database = '(censored)_zxq_ireport';

//access
$connection = new mysqli($server, $login, $password, $database);

//executes a given sql query with the params and returns an array as result
function query() {
    global $link;
    $debug = false;

    //get the sql query
    $args = func_get_args();
    $sql = array_shift($args);

    //secure the input
    for ($i=0;$i<count($args);$i++) {
        $args[$i] = urldecode($args[$i]);
        $args[$i] = mysqli_real_escape_string($link, $args[$i]);
    }

    //build the final query
    $sql = vsprintf($sql, $args);

    if ($debug) print $sql;

    //execute and fetch the results
    $result = mysqli_query($link, $sql);
    if (mysqli_errno($link)==0 && $result) {

        $rows = array();

        if ($result!==true)
        while ($d = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)) {
            array_push($rows,$d);
        }

        //return json
        return array('result'=>$rows);

    } else {

        //error
        return array('error'=>'Database error');
    }
}

//loads up the source image, resizes it and saves with -thumb in the file name
function thumb($srcFile, $sideInPx) {

  $image = imagecreatefromjpeg($srcFile);
  $width = imagesx($image);
  $height = imagesy($image);

  $thumb = imagecreatetruecolor($sideInPx, $sideInPx);

  imagecopyresized($thumb,$image,0,0,0,0,$sideInPx,$sideInPx,$width,$height);

  imagejpeg($thumb, str_replace(".jpg","-thumb.jpg",$srcFile), 85);

  imagedestroy($thumb);
  imagedestroy($image);
}

?>

Answer 1

Your error message suggest that you are not connecting from localhost (127.0.0.1) but making a remote connection( *user '(censored)_zxq'@'192.168.1.1'* )

When making a remote connection make sure that:

• all firewalls (client and server) have port 3306 open
• that mysql is configured for remote connections, by changing the bind address in my.cnf to 0.0.0.0
• that the remote user connection has privileges to connect.

Even if 192.168.1.1 is the IP from the server, it is still considered a remote connection, and steps 2 and 3 (sometimes also 1) have to be performed.