Error establishing a database connection

dgoude266
(@dgoude266)

16 years, 2 months ago

I know you guys are tired of seeing this topic but somebody has got to help me. Last night, blog worked fine. This morning, came up to add a new post… “Error establishing a database connection”.

Went in and double checked all of my settings in the wp-config everything was right. Added a new database, went through all of the steps again… “Error establishing a database connection”.

Deleted all databases, created one from scratch, went in to wp-config and set it up again… “Error establishing a database connection”.

Have no idea what to do next. I’m not a computer whiz so please talk English and not code!… unless you explain the code in English first!

Blog is at http://www.wrapitadgroup.com/blog

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Thread Starter dgoude266
(@dgoude266)

16 years, 2 months ago

Hosting is on GoDaddy and since I had it up and running I obviously had done everything correct… I DIDN’T CHANGE ANYTHING WITH MY DATABASE OR THE WP-CONFIG between the time that it was working and wasn’t working.

Rev. Voodoo
(@rvoodoo)

16 years, 2 months ago

a lot of people on godaddy are reporting this.

there are a couple threads going about it.

Godaddy is having database issues. They are aware, and working on the problem

Thread Starter dgoude266
(@dgoude266)

16 years, 2 months ago

So keep everything the same and wait on them?

elvisszhang
(@elvisszhang)

16 years, 1 month ago

please check the field value of [siteurl] in table [wp_options],
it should be your accurate site URL.

also you can execute sql as following (replace YOUR_SITE_URL as your site url):

update wp_options set option_value=’http://YOUR_SITE_URL’ where option_name=’siteurl'”;

Shane G.
(@shane-g-1)

16 years, 1 month ago

Hi,

Check with these options:

– Username and password information in your wp-config.php file is incorrect. Please check with PHPMyAdmin and correct it or reset it. Also make necessary changes in wp-config.php file.

– Make sure that you have typed correct host name in wp-config.php file.

– Your hosting service provider’s database server is down. Hence, take a support from your hosting service provider.

Thanks,

Shane G.

pirux
(@pirux)

16 years, 1 month ago

YOUR_SITE_URL!!!!!! thanks a lot!!! i had the same problem and the stupid insistence with the database name and pasword was making me crazy!!!

THE PROBLEM WAS THAT PART OF THE SQL DATABASE!! IT WAS EMPTY AND NOW I FIXED IT JUST PUTTING THE WEB URL!!!!

All the wordpress people MUST fix this silly error and stop insisting on the name and pasword -_-

thelemur
(@thelemur)

15 years, 10 months ago

Just ran into the same problem. Try Repairing all of the tables in the WP database.