Why is GRANT not working in MySQL?

Question

I\'m scratching my head on this one as I see a ton of helper websites showing how to create MySQL users and grant privileges but for some reason it just does not work for me

Answer 1

what you are selecting are the global privileges. you are however giving database (and host, but that doesnt matter) specific privileges.

GRANT INSERTON wordpress.* TO 'www'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'basic';

theese permissions are stored in the db table.

just to point you in the right direction:

SHOW GRANTS FOR 'www'@'localhost'

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/show-grants.html