Title: database connection error
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# database connection error

 *  [vickijardine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vickijardine/)
 * (@vickijardine)
 * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-connection-error-4-2/)
 * I get the error message 505 database server connection problem.
 * I changed something in my subheading for the blog on the home page and then may
   also have changed the public url or the other url for the site.
 * Can you help me? Or should I just re do the whole thing as I am only just now
   making my first post?

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 *  [figaro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/figaro/)
 * (@figaro)
 * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-connection-error-4-2/#post-933146)
 * The url change is probably what did it. You could open the database in something
   like phpMyAdmin and change it back, or if you are just starting out and are not
   familiar with “messing with the database”, then just drop the database and install
   again is probably just as easy.
 *  [brownkidd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brownkidd/)
 * (@brownkidd)
 * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-connection-error-4-2/#post-933337)
 * The same thing happened to me. I called my web host and they looked in my wp-
   config.php file and a letter was changed to a number. No clue how it happened
   because I never touched that file, but they fixed it for me.

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

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [brownkidd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brownkidd/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-connection-error-4-2/#post-933337)
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