error in establishing database connection
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i am trying to access my website and i am experiencing an “error establishing a database connection”. how do i fix this??
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Hi there!
I’m afraid that, your site is not hosted with WordPress.com. It is a site using the open-source WordPress software (from WordPress.org) but hosted with another company.
Because WordPress.com and WordPress.org are two entirely separate entities, we cannot access files or data for sites that are hosted elsewhere, so WordPress.com staff can only assist with sites that are hosted on our servers. You can read more about the differences between WordPress.org software and WordPress.com here:
You can find help with your question at: https://wordpress.org/support/forums/
http://wordpress.org/support/ is also a great resource for sites using the open-source WordPress.org software. -
I have installed XAMPP and WordPress on local host and all was working beautifully until ‘Error establishing a database connection’. This has happened twice now and I feel like I am mosing weeks of time.
Help
Regards
Colin -
Colin, can you double check with your host on this? Intermittent connection errors usually mean there’s a problem with MySQL on that server.
Also, these forums are for the free sites using our managed hosting service, which can be quite different from running your own WordPress installation at another host.
Here’s a link to the correct forums for self-managed sites:
https://wordpress.org/support/forums/
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