Error establishing a database connection

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  gwenmakes · Member · Mar 9, 2017 at 6:08 pm

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  My blog http://www.materialdelight.com/ says it has a database error. My bluehost domain doesn’t expire for another year and WP won’t let me log into WP admin because it shows the ‘Error establishing a database connection’ error message.

  From my research I need to add ‘define(‘WP_ALLOW_REPAIR’, true);’ to my wp-config.php file, but can’t login to WP admin to do so. Is there another way?

  Help!!!

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  timethief · Member · Mar 9, 2017 at 6:16 pm

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  materialdelight.com is hosted by Unified Layer
  Name Servers:
  ns2.bluehost.com
  ns1.bluehost.com

  Error establishing a database connection is a wordpress.ORG software install error.

  That site is not on our WordPress.COM servers. You are posting to the wrong support forum.

  WordPress.COM and WordPress.ORG are completely separate and have different username accounts, logins, features, run different versions of some themes with the same names, and have separate support documentation and separate support forums. Read the differences here http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  This is wordpress.COM support. We provide support only for wordpress.COM hosted sites. Our support docs do not apply to
  (1) local installs of wordpress.ORG software on your own server or
  (2) wordpress.ORG software installs on paid hosting, and we do not provide support for them at wordpress.COM.
  (3) sites linked to wordpress.COM accounts with the Jetpack plugin so they display on the My Sites wordpress.com account page.

  The wordpress.ORG login link is here https://login.wordpress.org/ If you do not have an account yet then click Create an account https://login.wordpress.org/register/ and if you have lost an account password click Lost password? https://login.wordpress.org/lostpassword/

  Some Jetpack solutions are here http://jetpack.com/support/

  Others are in the Jetpack support forum at WordPress.org
  http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/jetpack

  However, if help cannot be found at either one then they can file a Jetpack support ticket here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/?jetpack=needs-service

  WordPress.org support docs are at https://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
  See also https://apps.wordpress.org/support/ for app support.