Title: Error establishing a database connection–Multisite
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Error establishing a database connection–Multisite

 *  [Brookswood Secondary](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brookswood-secondary/)
 * (@brookswood-secondary)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-a-database-connection-multisite/)
 * We are running out own server, and have been running 2 sites since January. The
   main site hasn’t been created yet but we still have subsites operating:
 * [http://142.33.224.13/grade8](http://142.33.224.13/grade8)
    [http://142.33.224.13/catzcrew](http://142.33.224.13/catzcrew)
 * The grade 8 site has suddenly stopped working. We no longer see it under “my 
   sites” as “grade 8,” just as 142.33.224.13 (which is meant to be the main website).
   We can’t even log in to see the dashboard!
 * There is obviously something wrong with the SQL database but we have no idea 
   what or how to fix it. Our website is down and we don’t have a backup of the 
   database. How do we find the issue or repair the database? Not familiar with 
   wordpress so a step by step would be helpful!

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 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-a-database-connection-multisite/#post-3712823)
 * Yikes. Well. Go look in the DB and see how many wp_x_options tables you have.
 * But if you have no backup, you may be DOA.
 *  Thread Starter [Brookswood Secondary](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brookswood-secondary/)
 * (@brookswood-secondary)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-a-database-connection-multisite/#post-3712938)
 * What would I do and how many tables should I have?
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-a-database-connection-multisite/#post-3712941)
 * You should have a wp_x_options table for each site.
 * wp_options
    wp_2_options
 * etc
 *  Thread Starter [Brookswood Secondary](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brookswood-secondary/)
 * (@brookswood-secondary)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-a-database-connection-multisite/#post-3712942)
 * How do we view the tables? I don’t know the terminal command to open them.
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-a-database-connection-multisite/#post-3712950)
 * You’ll need to ask your webhost (or webmaster) how to look at the DB. Normally
   I’d say use PHPMyAdmin, but I get the feeling that isn’t a possibility for you.
 *  Thread Starter [Brookswood Secondary](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brookswood-secondary/)
 * (@brookswood-secondary)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-a-database-connection-multisite/#post-3712951)
 * We are our own hosting provider…we run a server here on campus just for our website.
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-a-database-connection-multisite/#post-3712954)
 * Then you need to go find someone who knows your mySQL stuff. It’s impossible 
   for me to know what you have installed :/

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## Tags

 * [can't connect](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/cant-connect/)
 * [database connection error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database-connection-error/)
 * [multisite](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/multisite/)
 * [sql-error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sql-error/)

 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
 * 7 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-a-database-connection-multisite/#post-3712954)
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