Comments - mysqli_connect did not work
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I would look at your MySQL users first. Are you certain you have the correct users and rights to do what you want to do?
Can you connect from the same host using the same login credentials using a different client, such as the mysql CLI? Is your database on the same host as your PHP process? Have you tried (temporarily!) using the root credentials with your mysqli_connect() call?