Title: Error Establishing Database Connection
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Error Establishing Database Connection

 *  [reecejayelee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/reecejayelee/)
 * (@reecejayelee)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-database-connection-105/)
 * Keep getting the “Error Establishing Database Connection” when trying to access
   my website on the front-end and also the back end. Not sure why this has happened.
   I don’t have a local host either. Seems to have broken overnight, it was fine
   when I left it the day before

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 *  [bdbrown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bdbrown/)
 * (@bdbrown)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-database-connection-105/#post-7579254)
 * Hi reecejayelee. Here’s a reference that might help:
    [https://codex.wordpress.org/Common_WordPress_Errors#Error_Establishing_Database_Connection](https://codex.wordpress.org/Common_WordPress_Errors#Error_Establishing_Database_Connection)

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