I can’t edit my website

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  everylittledetails · Member · Oct 6, 2021 at 3:01 pm

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  Hello,

  I tried to open up http://www.everylittledetails.com/wp-admin to edit my website and it won’t let me says ‘Can’t Select Database’

  WP.com: Yes
  Correct account: Yes

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  staff-totoro · Staff · Oct 6, 2021 at 8:44 pm

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  Hi there,

  I’ve taken a look at your site and see your issue (at the link you shared) but we can’t help directly because we don’t host your site on our WordPress.com managed hosting. As a result we don’t have the ability to take a closer look at your site.

  Instead your host (GoDaddy) uses the open-source variant of the WordPress platform which functions differently than what we offer here on WordPress.com, so for help with this you will need to turn to the open-source WordPress forums here: https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/

  When you get there you can mention your error message in full, which will help them to get to the root of the issue. I’ve copied it here for you:

  We were able to connect to the database server (which means your username and password is okay) but not able to select the i1049554_wp1 database.
  
  Are you sure it exists?
  - Does the user i1049554_wp1 have permission to use the i1049554_wp1 database?
  - On some systems the name of your database is prefixed with your username, so it would be like username_i1049554_wp1. Could that be the problem?

  Thanks!