Title: establishing connection issue
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# establishing connection issue

 *  [t0fu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t0fu/)
 * (@t0fu)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/establishing-connection-issue/)
 * i’ve had wordpress setup on my mac(10.4.3) with mysql 5.5 and no problems what
   so ever. i come back today after being away for a week and now i’m getting “Error
   establishing a database connection” msg. i checked and the mysql server is running
   and the passowrd and datbase name are correct. what could have happened?

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [t0fu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t0fu/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/establishing-connection-issue/)
 * Status: not resolved

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