Error Establishing Database Connection Wordpress 3.0
Flywheel Coupons Themes WP Plugins WP Hosting Services View All Deals WordPress Tutorials How to Fix Error Establishing a Database Connection in WordPress Last Updated on: July 27, 2016 Freddy Muriuki 25 CommentsWhen you start using WordPress, you're bound to encounter a number of errors, some grievous, other not so much. It's inevitable; it can be your fault, at times systems break, someone fails at their job, natural calamities strike - anything could cause an error. Even something as good as an increase in traffic can break your WordPress site, leaving you with an error and a bad taste in your mouth. Now, just like any other human-made project, WordPress is susceptible to its share of errors, none of which is as baffling and strenuous as the "error establishing database connection" error. That's because this error doesn't come with details of what went wrong, despite that it can be caused by several things, which - of course - only adds salt to the wound. All you get when you try loading your site is: In today's post, we will look a little deeper into this WordPress error, and then cover some of the solutions you can use to restore your site to its former glory. Enjoy and please share your tips and solutions, or ask your questions in the comment section at the end. What Does "Error Establishing a Database Connection" mean? To give you an insider's understanding of the "EEDC" error, we first need to break down WordPress into its two fundamental components. WordPress is built using PHP (e.g. index.php, sidebar.php etc) and MySQL. PHP is in charge of all functions on your WordPress site (e.g. posting comments, retriving posts and pages etc) and MySQL is in charge of data storage. For instance, when you type your URL in the address bar and hit enter, PHP kicks in, fetches and displays the contents of the homepage (index.php) from your MySQL database. Images, videos and such media are, however, stored in the wp-content folder, from where they're retrieved by PHP. Your MySQL database contains all the vital information PHP needs to create your site. Now, when PHP can't access your MySQL database for one reason or another, you get the dismaying "error establishing database connection" message on your screen. Which is just PHP-speak for
am new to this. My Bitnami wordpress stack is not accessible. I admit, I think I did something to the wp-confiq.php, I tried to restore the bitnami settings. But it didn't work. This is the message I get: Error establishing a database connection This either means that the username and password information in your wp-config.php file is incorrect or we can't contact the database server at localhost:3307. This could mean your host's database server is down. Are you sure https://www.wpkube.com/how-to-fix-error-establishing-database-connection-in-wordpress/ you have the correct username and password? Are you sure that you have typed the correct hostname? Are you sure that the database server is running? If you're unsure what these terms mean you should probably contact your host. If you still need help you can always visit the WordPress Support Forums. 30 Jan, 2011 01:22 PM carol 4 https://bitnami.com/forums/forums/wordpress/topics/database-error post(s) I forgot to say, I'm on a Mac, OSX10.6.6. I'm using the control panel. When I save the log, this is what it looks like. Any help would be appreciated. (In case you haven't guessed I'm a designer) [20:08] Syntax OK /Applications/wordpress-3.0.4-0/apache2/scripts/ctl.sh : apache not running [20:08] /Applications/wordpress-3.0.4-0/mysql/scripts/ctl.sh : mysql not running [20:08] 110129 20:08:41 mysqld_safe Logging to ‘/Applications/wordpress-3.0.4-0/mysql/data/mysqld.log'. 110129 20:08:41 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld.bin daemon with databases from /Applications/wordpress-3.0.4-0/mysql/data /Applications/wordpress-3.0.4-0/mysql/scripts/ctl.sh : mysql started at port 3306 [20:08] Syntax OK /Applications/wordpress-3.0.4-0/apache2/scripts/ctl.sh : httpd started at port 8080 30 Jan, 2011 04:56 PM Beltrán Rueda Administrator 3,714 post(s) Hi, It seems that the database is running in the 3306 port. Try to configure the wp-config.php to set this database port. 30 Jan, 2011 05:12 PM carol 4 post(s) Hi, Thanks. It looks like it's set for port 3306. But this stuff is definitely not my forte.
tour help Tour Start here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings and http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/190526/error-establishing-a-database-connection policies of this site About Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the company Business Learn more about hiring developers or posting ads with us WordPress Development Questions Tags Users Badges Unanswered http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29914397/error-establishing-a-database-connection-with-wordpress-and-azure Ask Question _ WordPress Development Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for WordPress developers and administrators. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Here's how it works: error establishing Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the top error establishing a database connection up vote 2 down vote favorite I know this question is asked like a million times, but I can't find an answer for my problem. This problem is happening in a user of my server (my father's error establishing database blog actually), and as he told me: "Just finished a post and was editing the text and the image layout when the site froze. Then tried when a different opened tab but couldn't do anything either". Since then, the famous "error establishing a database connection" has been there. This is the information I can give: The wp-config file is correct (it was working before and has not been changed. Also, I checked it) The MySQL server is working fine, and I can connect to the database with a small PHP script, and select the database The tables of the database need no repair (I also run the mysqlrepair tool) There's no .maintenance file Actually, in the functions.php:is_blog_installed() it couldn't find the siteurl option and as it's not repairing, the function returns false... Any idea why or how to recover the blog? database errors share|improve this question edited Jun 4 '15 at 17:20 asked Jun 4 '15 at 17:14 danikaze 1112 It's possible there is some issue with the network connection between your database server and your wordpress server. Have you verifi
here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings and policies of this site About Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the company Business Learn more about hiring developers or posting ads with us Stack Overflow Questions Jobs Documentation Tags Users Badges Ask Question x Dismiss Join the Stack Overflow Community Stack Overflow is a community of 4.7 million programmers, just like you, helping each other. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Error establishing a database connection with WordPress and Azure up vote 2 down vote favorite I have hosted a WordPress site, http://edufunweb.azurewebsites.net/, on Azure. It was working fine until I wanted to host another site. So I went to the edufun wp-config.php file in Microsoft Webmatrix and changed the line $table_prefix = 'wp_'; to $table_prefix = 'wp_2'; (or maybe it was the other way around) in order to have different tables in the database for each of the sites. Then I deleted the other site and now with whichever codes above I get a Warning: mysql_connect(): Access denied for user 'abcd'@'xxx.yyy.zzz.xx' (using password: YES) in D:\home\site\wwwroot\wp-includes\wp-db.php on line 1461 Error establishing a database connection This either means that the username and password information in your wp-config.php file is incorrect or we can't contact the database server at eu-cdbr-azure-north-c.cloudapp.net. This could mean your host's database server is down. Are you sure you have the correct username and password? Are you sure that you have typed the correct hostname? Are you sure that the database server is running? If you're unsure what these terms mean you should probably contact your host. If you still need help you can always visit the WordPress Support Forums. Moreover, if I connect to http://edufunweb.azurewebsites.net/wp-admin/ I still get the same error. Your help is highly appreciated as I need my website back on track! php wordpress azure webmatrix share|improve this question asked Apr 28 '15 at 8:38 Ali 4491416 add a comment| 2 Answers 2 active oldest votes up vote 1 down vote I don't think this is a WP multi-site issue. This typical