Title: Error establishing a database connection
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Error establishing a database connection

 *  [Neuro OpenWave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/redbluegreenfish/)
 * (@redbluegreenfish)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-a-database-connection-752/)
 * wordpress took me through a repair routine which asked me to add to
    define(‘
   WP_ALLOW_REPAIR’, true); WP-config.php I added it to the end
 * the result was these errors and asked me to go to WP forum… anyone know what 
   I can do this has happend to a number of sites and follows a large hack on many
   web sites.
 * 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’

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 * Last reply from: [Neuro OpenWave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/redbluegreenfish/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-a-database-connection-752/)
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