Hi jody huth!
1.- The new user must have read/write privileges for that database, make sure the new user does have such privileges.
2.- Double check that you entered the correct new user/password in ow_includes/config.php
Senior Developer.
The website is still giving error 500.
Please do this:
1.- Open ow_includes/config.php file and set DEBUG_MODE to true
2.- Open the index page http://www.stangdrvn.us
Copy and paste the error that will be displayed.
If the error remains the same, double check that you have the original database's user/password in ow_includes/config.php and that the user still does have read/write permissions
I think that now is a good time to make a full backup of all your files and database just in case somethinggoes wrong.
You have to set your correct values in ow_includes/config.php
define('OW_DB_USER', 'yourDatabaseUser');
define('OW_DB_PASSWORD', 'yourDatabasePassword');
This values are the database user and database password.
I have one question, did you make changes on this file before the update or before everything was messed up?
I'm reading your first post, what do you mean by: "used the new user and pass with all privledges"
Could you explain what did you do and the exact steps that you did do?
We can't know if the hosting is broken until you move into another hosting provider.
The issue is that the website is trying to connect to the database with the user/password that is in the config.php file, so the error says that you cannot acces to the database with that user/password. That simple.
One last thing that you may try is to make a database backup.
Make a new database, and new user/password with privileges for that database or give privileges to an existing user, restore the old database into the new one, and finally, change the user/password in config.php file.