mysql_exceptions.OperationalError: (1045, "Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)")

Question

I've started working with django, and here is the error on 'runserver' after setting up 'DATABASES' in settings.py

mysql_exceptions.OperationalError: (1045, "Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)") 

My settings.py portion of code:

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql', # Add 'postgresql_psycopg2', 'mysql', 'sqlite3' or 'oracle'.
        'NAME': 'my_site',                      # Or path to database file if using sqlite3.
        'USER': 'root',                      # Not used with sqlite3.
        'PASSWORD': 'root',                  # Not used with sqlite3.
        'HOST': '',                      # Set to empty string for localhost. Not used with sqlite3.
        'PORT': '',                      # Set to empty string for default. Not used with sqlite3.
    }

}

I've created 'my_site' database and privileges are set in the right way (root has all privileges). I've done this operations with 'phpmyadmin'.

What goes wrong?

Answer 1

Run in console

mysql> grant all privileges on *.* to root@localhost identified by 'password' with grant option;