Check that the quotes around db-settings.php are the single quote character next to your enter/return key.
I am sure there is some silly reason this doesn’t work for me, but please tell a silly man what he is doing wrong 🙂
Sometimes web browsers convert quotation marks into encoded quotation marks when you paste text.
Thread Starter
hofda
(@hofda)
OK, I had put in the line wrong. Now it looks like this:
define(‘DB_COLLATE’, require( ‘dbsettings.php’ ));
I get a new error, but this time it looks to be about the dbsettings.php file, not the wp-config.php file.
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING in /home/hofda/public_html/classicxrated.com/dbsettings.php on line 15
If I read it correctly, there is something wrong on line 15, I think thats where the database prefix is located, but I might count wrong (do you count lines with nothing in them?).
Thread Starter
hofda
(@hofda)
By the way, the line looks like this:
$shardb_prefix = ‘hofda_’;
define(‘DB_COLLATE’, require( ‘dbsettings.php’ ));
That’s not what the guide instructs you to do. Change that line back to the way it was. You are supposed to add the following line after all of the define( 'DB_* lines:
require( 'db-settings.php');
It should be on its own line with no text.
Thread Starter
hofda
(@hofda)
Putting them on different lines was what I did first, and there were no double quotations there when I checked. So back to square one.
Now it looks like this in wp-config.php:
define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);
require( ‘dbsettings.php’);
I get the same error I began with.
Thread Starter
hofda
(@hofda)
Sorry, when I upload to my FTP server, it doesn’t seem to take right away. I now get the same error I got last instead; Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING in /home/hofda/public_html/classicxrated.com/dbsettings.php on line 15
Not sure why I got error on line 35 in wp-config the first time, as I can swear I was setting it the same way I have now.
You likely have the same quote problem. The text of the message is the same a in your original post.
Thread Starter
hofda
(@hofda)
The problem is I can’t see a quote (“) anywhere on line 15, only single ‘ in front and behind the database prefix name. Am I misundertanding you?
Below is line 14-16:
$shardb_hash_length = 1;
$shardb_prefix = ‘hofda_’;
$shardb_dataset = ‘mb’;
By quote I mean either a single quote or a double quote. Both lines 15 & 16 have single quotes.
