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1. Toosheds
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   Hi, I am at my wits end trying to move a site from a (.com) domain to a (.de) domain on the same server. Starting from scratch each time, I have followed five different tutorials to the letter and keep getting the "Unable to Establish Connection to Database" message. I searched that here and followed recommendations, but nothing has helped. I have double, triple and quadruple checked the settings between the database and wp-config.php.

   I am using only ftp and the cPanel tools.

   Finally I tried installing WordPress first and then uploading the database and replacing the wp-content folder. At least that got rid of the message but it seems I will have to build the site from scratch again, because none of the database settings took. phpMyAdmin shows the database to be 1.8 MB but MySQL Databases says it is 0.0 MB !! How can that be? I have checked and repaired the database but no change.
   So then I followed the 'official' MOVING WORDPRESS TO A NEW SERVER section of this tutorial (http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress). No difference. Error establishing a database connection. (This tutorial, by the way, is by far the most opaque and convoluted of all the tutorials I tried.)

   This is probably the single most frustrating thing I have ever tried to do. I built this site for a friend for free and have invested way more time in this process than it can ever be worth.

   Could it have something to do with moving from a .com domain name to a .de domain name?

   Target domain is http://zier-law.de

   Please help!

2. RichardWPG
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   Does your hosting provider support you in terms of moving your wordpress?

3. Toosheds
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   They do, but with this caveat:

   We are sorry to hear you are still having trouble, and are hopeful that we can assist you if it continues. Please be aware however, that our third party software support is limited and if your issue is beyond the scope of our support you may need to work directly with WordPress to resolve your issue, thank you for your understanding in this.

   Am unsure as how to proceed. Is this a hosting or WordPress issue?

4. keesiemeijer
   moderator
   Posted 4 months ago #

   Do you have all privileges for the database? http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#Using_cPanel

5. Toosheds
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   Of course.

6. Toosheds
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   Deleted all inactive plugins and then it worked. Lesson learned!

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