Title: Editing Database using wp-config.php settings
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Editing Database using wp-config.php settings

 *  [caretaker1379](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caretaker1379/)
 * (@caretaker1379)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-database-using-wp-configphp-settings/)
 * hi
    i changed web hosts but i forgot to backup the database from the old host.
   stupid i know. Is there a way to edit the new database to the old wp-config.php
   file settings i was able to save? how do you do that? thanks.

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 *  [Krishna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/1nexus/)
 * (@1nexus)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-database-using-wp-configphp-settings/#post-4034675)
 * You cannot access the old database that way. When you change hosts, the crucial
   database info in wp-config.php changes to work with the new hosting environment.
 *  [2ninerniner2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/2ninerniner2/)
 * (@2ninerniner2)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-database-using-wp-configphp-settings/#post-4034676)
 * > i forgot to backup the database from the old host.
 * Then you do not have anything to put into your new database; that is, you do 
   not have your old site’s content, as that is were all your posts, pages and settings
   are stored … oops 🙂
 * You are now starting from scratch without a DB backup to import. As Krishna pointed
   out, the DB info in your previous wp-config.php is not relevant to the new one.
 *  [kulwant2sin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kulwant2sin/)
 * (@kulwant2sin)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-database-using-wp-configphp-settings/#post-4034733)
 * Ask your old host if they have backup still with them for your site . They do
   store some backups i recovered when my site crashed on hostgator .
 *  Thread Starter [caretaker1379](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caretaker1379/)
 * (@caretaker1379)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-database-using-wp-configphp-settings/#post-4034756)
 * Good to know. I didn’t know that saving the database is the holy grail of WordPress
   hehehe. I hate having to know this the hard way.
 * just to say i went from go daddy hosting to hostgator.

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

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