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Hi I just switched my site over to a new host and my friend transferred the SQL tables to the new host for me and now everyone else gets this error:
MySQL error: 1044
Access denied for user 'dkimber'@'localhost' to database 'dkimber'
Query:

I, on th other hand, get this error:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /Forum/index.php on this server.

Can anyone help me fix this? I know it has something to do with the config file, but all the passwords and stuff are correct, so now i have no clue what to do.

I even asked hostgator support, and they were no help.

Thanks in advance

As you guessed, it's either your config.php file, or your MySQL DB not set up properly.

Make sure that you have made a user to the DB, and entered all the details correctly into config.php.

I'm going to make the guess that it's shared hosting - most of the time, when you make a MySQL user, it should have a prefix, followed by an underscore (whereas, the above error message, there's no underscore in the username).

To add to what ZiNga BuRgA said, your database login info is usually different from your cPanel login info.