cant connect opencart to mySQL database

Question

I\'m trying to set up opencart for my website, but when I fill in everything for the MySQL database I get this error:

No connection could be made because the tar         


        

Answer 1

My guess is that your DB user is only allowed to access the DB server from 127.0.0.1. You might want to grant additional privileges to it and in your SQL shell run something like

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* To 'your-db-user'@'192.168.1.125'