Moving WordPress

  • JoePhilpott

    (@joephilpott)


    11 years ago

    Hi,

    I’m in the process of moving a website by following the advice of https://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress.

    However, I get the following error message:

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    Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Access denied for user ‘‘joelightfm’’@’localhost’ (using password: YES) in /var/www/vhosts/newboldnsa.co.uk/test.newboldnsa.co.uk/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 1416
    Error establishing a database connection
    This either means that the username and password information in your wp-config.php file is incorrect or we can’t contact the database server at 127.0.0.1. This could mean your host’s database server is down.

    Are you sure you have the correct username and password?
    Are you sure that you have typed the correct hostname?
    Are you sure that the database server is running?
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    I’ve checked, double checked and tripple checked and the db name, username and password are all correct.

    I’ve tried changing ‘localhost’ to ‘localhost:3306’ and even 127.0.0.1 but none of this has helped.

    Can someone please help?

    Thanks!!

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    11 years ago

    I’ve tried changing ‘localhost’ to ‘localhost:3306’ and even 127.0.0.1

    – Have you asked your hosting provider as what it should be?
    – Then make sure wp-config.php is in right location.
    – if all that information is correct your database probably has a problem with it. Contact your hosting provider if the database server is offline (if the problem suddenly happened), or if they have any other problem at their end, or they made any changes to your account, or if there are any limitations/restrictions, or if the hosting package is set to Windows and not Linux, etc.
    – In case the error is intermittent then it’s your server. What’s happening is that the web server and/or the database server are gettign overloaded and the connection is droping out or is refused for a short time. That gives you the database error as the website can’t connect to the database. To fix this, you’ll need to talk to your hosting company as they are the only ones that can do anything about hardware issues like this.
    – There are also many threads on this topic on these forums: http://wordpress.org/search/Error+establishing+a+database+connection?forums=1

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