Title: Weird Error!
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Weird Error!

 *  Anonymous
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-error-2/)
 * Error establishing a database connection! This probably means that the connection
   information in your wp-config.php file is incorrect. Double check it and try 
   again.
    * Are you sure you have the correct user/password? * Are you sure that
   you have typed the correct hostname? * Are you sure that the database server 
   is running?

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-error-2/#post-113717)
 * That’s not a weird error; it’s the sign that people don’t read carefully and/
   or are not able to change 3 or 4 words in the wp-config.php file 🙂
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-error-2/#post-113720)
 * Acutally, I haven’t touched my wp-config file. 🙂 WordPress has been working 
   fine for over three months now; I just randomly went to check my website, and
   I got that error.
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-error-2/#post-113724)
 * In that case contact your host, they might have changed some settings.
 *  Moderator [Matt Mullenweg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt/)
 * (@matt)
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-error-2/#post-113727)
 * Yes that just means we can’t get in touch with the DB, it will return that error
   if the info in `wp-config.php` wrong or if the database is down.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Matt Mullenweg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-error-2/#post-113727)
 * Status: not resolved

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