Title: Getting Error as “Error Establishing a Database Connection”
Last modified: March 5, 2023

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# Getting Error as “Error Establishing a Database Connection”

 *  [prateek21289](https://wordpress.org/support/users/prateek21289/)
 * (@prateek21289)
 * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-error-as-error-establishing-a-database-connection/)
 * Me as well as hundreds of my website visitors have suddenly started getting this
   error.
 * Please help.
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fgetting-error-as-error-establishing-a-database-connection%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [Dave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dvaer/)
 * (@dvaer)
 * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-error-as-error-establishing-a-database-connection/#post-16529056)
 * If you get a page featuring the message “Error Establishing Database Connection,”
   this means that there is a problem with the connection to your database and there
   could be a number of reasons for this.
 * A good place to start troubleshooting is here: [Common WordPress Errors](https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/common-wordpress-errors/#error-establishing-database-connection).
 * I hope that points you in the right direction.

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 * Last activity: [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-error-as-error-establishing-a-database-connection/#post-16529056)
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