WordPress stopped working

  • Resolved briansellers

    (@briansellers)


    11 years, 3 months ago

    I had a site that was working perfectly and I lost access to the dashboard so I reinstalled my wordpress application and now I can’t get access to the front end or the dashboard of the site – I currently get Error establishing database connection.

    When I go to the file manager all files are there and look correct but unsure why nothing is showing up.

    http://www.stringershuntingandfishing.com

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  • Thread Starter briansellers

    (@briansellers)

    11 years, 3 months ago

    Update – got the site up again but all of my pages are gone, anyway to restore pages. All of my plugins and addons were deactivated and I lost all of my orders for the store.

    Thread Starter briansellers

    (@briansellers)

    11 years, 3 months ago

    Update two – I was able to point the current installation to the old SQL database and everything came back.. I think I’m good but definitely didn’t like that learning experience.

    Senff – a11n

    (@senff)

    11 years, 3 months ago

    You should check your database and find out if the old database tables are still there. If they are, you can change the database prefix in wp-config.php and you should see your old site again.

    However, if you reinstalled WordPress from scratch, using the same database table prefix (by default this is wp_) then you probably overwrote all your previous settings.

    Thread Starter briansellers

    (@briansellers)

    11 years, 3 months ago

    Thanks Mark – that is what I did to fix it.. Luckily I backed up every few days so I didn’t lose anything.

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