Title: Upgrade Tip, My SQL Password
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Upgrade Tip, My SQL Password

 *  Resolved [unspun](https://wordpress.org/support/users/unspun/)
 * (@unspun)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrade-tip-my-sql-password/)
 * If your hosting service is like mine you had WordPress installed for you. So 
   I never entered a password to remember or write down for My SQL Database. When
   I looked into the Cpanel Icon for My SQL Data base it had the various bits of
   information I needed to proceed on with the installation and I ASSUMED the same
   password I had gotten to access the CPanel was used for the MY SQL Db. No so.
   Anyhow, when I had finished uploading the files to my server and I went back 
   to my browser to work on my admin settings needless to say I got the old error
   message. Either your server is down or you did something wrong dummy! Well where
   do you find the password for your My SQL Db? If you had WordPress previously 
   installed there is a wp-config file that already exists and it worked before,
   why should the information in it not continue to be valid. Well it was. I went
   back there and WOW there it was, the most secure password I’d seen since last…
   I was going to say I worked with nuclear weapons, but who knows the NSA might
   hack into this. But it was a hell of a password which I just cut and paste into
   the new wp-config.php and viola, it worked.
    Thought I might share that if you
   had a previously installed version of WordPress and backed up your files go look
   at your old wp-config file and you’ll find the info you’ve been using all along
   and which should work in the new installation.

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 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrade-tip-my-sql-password/#post-302583)

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