Can't connect to MySql from PHP

Ok, so the solution was to rebuild the droplet with clean Ubuntu 14.04 and install LAMP by myself. Now everything works like a charm.

Thanks for your answer. I created new user by the digitalocean tutorial https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-a-new-user-and-grant-permissions-in-mysql which is variation of what you wrote.

The funny thing is that I can log in with this user (root as well) and see the database via command line (secret variables are in {…}):

**{user}@{host}:~# mysql -u{username} -p{password}**
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 82
Server version: 5.5.38-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 (Ubuntu)

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owners.

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.

**mysql> show databases;**
+--------------------+
| Database           |
+--------------------+
| information_schema |
| {database}          |
+--------------------+
2 rows in set (0.02 sec)

But when I want to connect with the same access information on the same server:

host: localhost username: {username} password: {password} database: {database}

I get “Database access denied!” :(

From what I am reading, you created a new database user for the website but you can’t connect. So am guessing that the user doesn’t have the required privileges, try to run the following commands from mysql root user:

grant all privileges on ‘database’. to ‘user’@127.0.0.1 identified by ‘password’; flush privileges;*

Replace database, user and password with your own without removing the single quotes.