Title: “Error establishing a database connection”  Help?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# “Error establishing a database connection” Help?

 *  [sethharris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sethharris/)
 * (@sethharris)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-a-database-connection-help-1/)
 * Our website is down. When you go to [http://www.techdeals.net](http://www.techdeals.net),
   it says, “Error establishing a database connection”. How do I resolve this?
 * Can someone help me on this?
 * [sethwharris13@yahoo.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-a-database-connection-help-1/sethwharris13@yahoo.com?output_format=md)

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 *  [Jeremy Clark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeremyclark13/)
 * (@jeremyclark13)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-a-database-connection-help-1/#post-613453)
 * Have you done what the error says and look in your wp-config file and made sure
   that the values are the same. Careless permissions could allow someone to change
   the contents of the file. Also check that your database server is still up.

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

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 * Last activity: [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-a-database-connection-help-1/#post-613453)
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