Title: Connection Error
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Connection Error

 *  [sidney78](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sidney78/)
 * (@sidney78)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/connection-error/)
 * I’m having a nightmare trying to get wordpress to work, as with a few other posts
   I keep receiving “Error establishing a database connection”
 * I have double checked and triple checked all of the database settings in wp-config.
   php and they are definitely correct, I’ve even pasted them in from the email 
   i received from my hosting company. I’ve set up several blogs on other sites 
   and had absolutely no problems doing so.
 * Can anybody give me any more advice on what could be going wrong?
 * Many thanks in advance.

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 *  [vaibhavkanwal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vaibhavkanwal/)
 * (@vaibhavkanwal)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/connection-error/#post-1308092)
 * This is something weird. WordPress tells you if it finds a problem with the database
   and host prior to installation.
    If it reported everything is alright then I 
   do not think you should have any problems.
 * Please check Database Host name : Sometimes it differs from the default localhost
 * Also at times, the Web Hosts append various numeric codes to the Database name,
   so please check the same also.
 *  [idontknowwahtiamdoing](https://wordpress.org/support/users/idontknowwahtiamdoing/)
 * (@idontknowwahtiamdoing)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/connection-error/#post-1308106)
 * the same thing is happening to me. I have 2 other blogs set up and running and
   they have no issues. It’s the ones I have messed with today that are saying the
   same.

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## Tags

 * [connection](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/connection/)
 * [database](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database/)

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 * 2 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [idontknowwahtiamdoing](https://wordpress.org/support/users/idontknowwahtiamdoing/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/connection-error/#post-1308106)
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