Title: fatal scripting error
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# fatal scripting error

 *  Resolved [travisboone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/travisboone/)
 * (@travisboone)
 * [17 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-scripting-error/)
 * I know what I did; I just don’t know how to fix it. I was writing a post in IE7,
   and forgot to hit the save button before I tried to access my account in Firefox.
 * It took exception to the fact that I was trying to log in simultaneously with
   the same user name and password, and now I’m locked out of my account. I can’t
   access the admin page, and externally it’s listed as a 500 error.
 * I uploaded my backup from this morning – no luck. I uploaded the backup from 
   last night – no luck. I deleted the appropriate files and “upgraded” again to
   2.5 (even though I was already using 2.5) and still no luck.
 * I’ve been on hold for 45 minutes with tech support at my ISP. They have finally
   decided it is a php error, but so far no luck in fixing it either. Any ideas?
   Here is a snippet of the error message from the log file.
 * PHP Warning: mysql_connect() [[function.mysql-connect](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-scripting-error/function.mysql-connect?output_format=md)]:
   User already has more than ‘max_user_connections’ active connections

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 *  [haochi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/haochi/)
 * (@haochi)
 * [17 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-scripting-error/#post-737811)
 * It means that you have too much (defined by your host/ISP) connections to the
   database. It could be your theme or your plugins (or your host allowing a small
   number of active connections).
 *  Thread Starter [travisboone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/travisboone/)
 * (@travisboone)
 * [17 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-scripting-error/#post-737840)
 * Oh, I did know what the problem was – my ISP didn’t allow multiple active connections;
   I judt couldn’t figure out how to fix it.
 * I eventually backed into the idea of accessing an individual post, which I was
   able to do. From that page, I was then able to click the link for admin on my
   right bar and log out of IE.
 * Then I repeated that step in Firefox. Once I successfully was able to even access
   the admin page in both locations and able to log out, then it straightened itself
   out.
 * [Here’s a link to the specifics](http://blog.barbaraboone.com/?p=1266) in case
   this happens to anyone else.

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

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 * Last reply from: [travisboone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/travisboone/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-scripting-error/#post-737840)
 * Status: resolved

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