Error 500 in transfer of OJS to another hosting "SQLSTATE[HY000] [1130] Host '127.0.0.1' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server"

[marc]

Hi @ojsmk3

Looks like a credentials issue. Please install adminer and confirm your mysql credentials are fine:

Take a look to this post:

Ojs2: Database connection failed!

First we need to be sure all is working fine in the DB side (server, user, pwd and dbname are correct). To do this, the easiest way is downloading “adminer”, that is a DB management software build in a single php file. So, please follow this steps: Download Adminer from their web. Upload this to your server’s root (in your case, you don’t need to upload… just place in your xampp root). Visit adminer webpage (in your case, would be "http://localhost/adminer.php or something like that). Fill w…

Cheers,
m.