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  • Moderator t-p

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    Error connecting to your database is common, but it isn’t necessarily a problem with wordpress itself.
    – double check your wp-config.php file settings for the database name, database username and database password. This is where most errors occur. – Then check that you don’t need to change the database host from “localhost” to something else. You can get that info from your hosting provider. – Check you have actually created a database with the same database name as is in your wp-config.php file.
    – Last, but not least, if all that information is correct your database probably has a problem with it, and you may need to contact your hosting provider if the database server is online / if they have any other problem at their end, or they made any changes to your account, or if there are any limitations/restrictions, if the hosting package is set to Windows and not Linux, etc.
    – There are also many threads on this topic on these forums: http://wordpress.org/search/Error+establishing+a+database+connection?forums=1

    The problem occurred when importing the old database — I kept getting duplicate errors.

    You cannot just do a standard import of a database backup into an existing database … of course you will get duplicate errors 🙂

    As you were re-installing, just delete the existing database, create another, new, empty one with the same name and import your backup into that 🙂 … easy-peesy

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