Title: Empty siteurl a database error?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Empty siteurl a database error?

 *  [siggijons](https://wordpress.org/support/users/siggijons/)
 * (@siggijons)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-siteurl-a-database-error/)
 * (also applied to version 2.9.2)
 * Setting siteurl in wp_options to ” (the empty string) results in problems loading
   the blog/admin which is expected.
 * The error message however is rather misleading
    The given errors are: “Error 
   establishing a database connection” “One or more database tables are unavailable.
   The database may need to be repaired.”
 * Going through the repair/optimize process is successful and yields no error, 
   which left me quite confused but I figured out the problem after further interrogating
   of the computer-illiterate who was fiddling with the settings =)
 * Would suggest a more descriptive error for this case instead of assuming an error
   with the database setup.

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 *  [Joey Kudish](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jkudish/)
 * (@jkudish)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-siteurl-a-database-error/#post-1834049)
 * Here are a few more ways you can pass along your suggestions: [http://wordpress.org/news/2009/05/ideas/](http://wordpress.org/news/2009/05/ideas/)
 * Cheers

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 * [siteurl](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/siteurl/)

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