Title: Database Error
Last modified: October 5, 2018

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# Database Error

 *  [Charles Sandor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/charles-sandor/)
 * (@charles-sandor)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-269/)
 * My site went down with a unable to connect to database error. I ran the database
   repair and got this error message:
    wp_users: Unknown storage engine ‘InnoDB’
   wp_usermeta: Unknown storage engine ‘InnoDB’ wp_posts: Unknown storage engine‘
   InnoDB’ wp_comments: Unknown storage engine ‘InnoDB’ wp_links: Unknown storage
   engine ‘InnoDB’ wp_options: Unknown storage engine ‘InnoDB’ wp_postmeta: Unknown
   storage engine ‘InnoDB’ wp_terms: Unknown storage engine ‘InnoDB’ wp_term_taxonomy:
   Unknown storage engine ‘InnoDB’ wp_term_relationships: Unknown storage engine‘
   InnoDB’ wp_commentmeta: Unknown storage engine ‘InnoDB’
 * Anyone know what this is and how to repair?
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fdatabase-error-269%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-269/#post-10751751)
 * This seems to be the InnoDB got corrupted on your server. If you can contact 
   your Hosting provider they can easily fix the issue for you.
 * Please refer the help article for more info.
 * [https://forums.cpanel.net/threads/error-unknown-storage-engine-innodb-error-corrupt.491341/](https://forums.cpanel.net/threads/error-unknown-storage-engine-innodb-error-corrupt.491341/)
 * [https://forums.cpanel.net/threads/innodb-corruption-repair-guide.418722/](https://forums.cpanel.net/threads/innodb-corruption-repair-guide.418722/)
 *  [JNashHawkins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jnashhawkins/)
 * (@jnashhawkins)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-269/#post-10751760)
 * It looks to me like your database is either gone or you’re database credentials
   in wp-config are corrupted.
 * I’d probably take a quick look at a backup copy of my config file and the present
   config and I’d take a look to make sure my database is really there and able 
   to answer to WordPress.
 *  [salmansaleem920](https://wordpress.org/support/users/salmansaleem920/)
 * (@salmansaleem920)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-269/#post-10752198)
 * [@jnashhawkins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jnashhawkins/) is right

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [salmansaleem920](https://wordpress.org/support/users/salmansaleem920/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-269/#post-10752198)
 * Status: not resolved

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