Database Connection Error in WP-Admin

  • Resolved anotherusername

    (@anotherusername)


    12 years, 7 months ago

    Hi,

    I have added a blog to my website and have been (and still am to an extent) developing it on my own XAMPP Server.

    I have uploaded the databse to my live site, changed the database and login details on wp-config so they are correct, and the blog now displays, so it’s obviously connecting and reading from the database on the ‘index’ page.

    However if i try to click through on a post, or go to /wp-admin, i get a ‘Error establishing a database connection’ error.

    Can someone explain what i’m missing as i don’t understand why it would read (connect) fine for the index page, but fail on click throughs or the admin section.

    Thanks in advance

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  • tomaltman

    (@tomaltman)

    12 years, 7 months ago

    Did you change to the proper DB in the wp-config.php file? There are also a number of settings needed in the database.

    The best luck I have had with this is install a fresh, clean install on your server. Get it running the basic wordpress.

    Then – move from the old site everything but wp_usermeta, wp_users & wp_options (this is for a normal install – not WP Multisite).

    Make sense?

    Thread Starter anotherusername

    (@anotherusername)

    12 years, 7 months ago

    Hi Tom,

    I figured it out, i hadn’t changed the url in options (it was still set as localhost), so i changed this, which locked me out of admin (!), but then just went into the database and updated all the relevant rows.

    My wp-config file was perfect, it was just out of date links in the databse basically, thanks for your post though 🙂

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