Title: Error Establishing database connection – same error different problem
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Error Establishing database connection – same error different problem

 *  Resolved [1337mama](https://wordpress.org/support/users/1337mama/)
 * (@1337mama)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-database-connection-same-error-different-problem/)
 * Hi, I just installed WordPress for the first time today. I had it up and running
   fine and installed a custom theme, which I altered a bit. I didn’t do much, except
   change the background and add a header image.
 * Well, I didn’t add the right image at first and I put the right one in header.
   php. It didn’t show up though unless I clicked a link that I had messed up, which
   was [http://www.1337mama.com/blog/www.1337mama.com](http://www.1337mama.com/blog/www.1337mama.com)
 * For some reason, that had the right image and the corrected link from above. 
   Well, I waited an hour in case it was a slow server issue – of course I cleared
   my cache and all that. I was tired of waiting, so I deleted my header.php from
   my blog’s folder and put it right back in.
 * That’s when the database errors started coming. After messing around with both
   my database and the wp config file and seeing nothing but a white screen when
   I went to 1337mama.com/blog, I deleted everything and copied my original blog
   folder back onto my server like before. I went to run that one install php file–
   it couldn’t establish a server connection and it gave me the error “Error establishing
   a database connection”.
 * Now I can’t even access anything to get my blog reinstalled/running again. I 
   redid my server password and added it to my config file, but that didn’t help.
   I have no idea what to do now. Any help would be greatly appreciated! 🙂

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 *  Thread Starter [1337mama](https://wordpress.org/support/users/1337mama/)
 * (@1337mama)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-database-connection-same-error-different-problem/#post-794178)
 * Nevermind. I gave up on the manual stuff, went back to my host’s wordpress manager,
   deactivated it, and started all over. Thankfully I only lost one post haha. BUT
   the good news is, I didn’t have to fuss with the theme. I just made my changes
   before I coped the folder over and it was immediately perfect.
 * Yay. 🙂

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