Title: Stumped: Database connection error.
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Stumped: Database connection error.

 *  [larold2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/larold2/)
 * (@larold2)
 * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stumped-database-connection-error/)
 * I am relatively new to php and mysql, but overall a (hopefully) generally competent
   unix admin.
 * I have created a wordpress user and database in mysql with the mysql command-
   line client, and
    using the directions in the mysql documentation. I have set
   the password for the wordpress database user. I have confirmed, using the mysql
   command-line client, that the ‘wordpress’ mysql user can get in using the password
   I created, and that there is a ‘wordpress’ database table set up.
 * I have also verified that the entries at the top of
    wp-config.php are set correctly.(
   I’ve gone so far as to cut and paste these values into the mysql command-line
   client to confirm there were no typoe, and that I could log in using these values.)
 * After all this, though, I still get the generic
    ‘Error establishing a database
   connection.’ I do know that mysql is indeed running. I checked the apache logs,
   and there are no errors – the php pages are getting served just fine. I tried
   to do some sleuthing, as I wanted to know whether or not MySQL was actually seeing
   connection. Unfortunately, after hunting around the filesystem (as root) and 
   looking through MySQL docs, I couldn’t readily find a source of info about successful
   and failed login / connection attempts that MySQL had seen.
 * Can someone help guide me in the next steps of the problem-solving process? I”
   m rather stumped from here. I’m guessing it’d be helpful to know if
    MySQL even
   sees the connection attempts, but I don’t know how to find / extract those logs.
 * Thanks!
    – Larry

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 *  Thread Starter [larold2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/larold2/)
 * (@larold2)
 * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stumped-database-connection-error/#post-481342)
 * Nevermind –
 * I saw the installation troubleshooting FAQ, and sure
    enough, I needed to manually
   reset the user password, even though I had already set it previously.

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