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MYSQL Error when using wordpress

Posted on May 28, 2014

Trying to create a gallery and I get this error:

Access denied for user ‘root’@‘localhost’ (using password: NO)insert into wp_gallery set gallery_name=

Hod do I fix it?



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Make sure that the correct database name and user are set in your wp-config.php file. Using the DigitalOcean one-click app, it is locate at <code>/var/www/wp-config.php</code> The DB_NAME and DB_USER should both be wordpress:

<pre> define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘wordpress’); define(‘DB_USER’, ‘wordpress’); define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘XXXXXXX’); </pre>

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