Title: Database connection error
Last modified: October 30, 2017

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# Database connection error

 *  Resolved [Sylko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sylko/)
 * (@sylko)
 * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-connection-error-45/)
 * Flow-Flow plugin encountered database connection error. Please contact for support
   via item’s comments section and provide info below:
    flow\db\SafeMySQL: Can’t
   initialize character set utf8mb4 (path: /usr/share/mysql/charsets/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Oleksandr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/awesomeoman/)
 * (@awesomeoman)
 * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-connection-error-45/#post-9633594)
 * Hi, it seems to be a server issue. Please ask hosting support to check this error
   and MySQL settings.

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 * Last activity: [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-connection-error-45/#post-9633594)
 * Status: resolved