Title: database connection error
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# database connection error

 *  [raj54123](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raj54123/)
 * (@raj54123)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-connection-error-17/)
 * i am new for wordpress i just created one site.i have edited wp-config.php and
   i have changed database,username,password in that file. after completion of website
   upload i got error msg. “Error establishing a database connection”.i am using
   webhosting is 000webhost.com.
    do i need to do some thing else in that file can
   yo help me please

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-connection-error-17/#post-2307776)
 * Check your database credentials with your hosts. There really isn’t much else
   we can do to help here.
 *  [techbrij](https://wordpress.org/support/users/techbrij/)
 * (@techbrij)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-connection-error-17/#post-2308172)
 * See following step by step guide to fix this error:
    [Error establishing a database connection – WordPress](http://techbrij.com/760/error-establishing-a-database-connection-wordpress)

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## Tags

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

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 * Last activity: [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-connection-error-17/#post-2308172)
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