Title: WordPress stopped working
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# WordPress stopped working

 *  Resolved [briansellers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/briansellers/)
 * (@briansellers)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-stopped-working-4/)
 * I had a site that was working perfectly and I lost access to the dashboard so
   I reinstalled my wordpress application and now I can’t get access to the front
   end or the dashboard of the site – I currently get Error establishing database
   connection.
 * When I go to the file manager all files are there and look correct but unsure
   why nothing is showing up.
 * [http://www.stringershuntingandfishing.com](http://www.stringershuntingandfishing.com)

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 *  Thread Starter [briansellers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/briansellers/)
 * (@briansellers)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-stopped-working-4/#post-5777319)
 * Update – got the site up again but all of my pages are gone, anyway to restore
   pages. All of my plugins and addons were deactivated and I lost all of my orders
   for the store.
 *  Thread Starter [briansellers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/briansellers/)
 * (@briansellers)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-stopped-working-4/#post-5777334)
 * Update two – I was able to point the current installation to the old SQL database
   and everything came back.. I think I’m good but definitely didn’t like that learning
   experience.
 *  [Senff – a11n](https://wordpress.org/support/users/senff/)
 * (@senff)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-stopped-working-4/#post-5777335)
 * You should check your database and find out if the old database tables are still
   there. If they are, you can change the database prefix in **wp-config.php** and
   you should see your old site again.
 * However, if you reinstalled WordPress from scratch, using the same database table
   prefix (by default this is **wp_**) then you probably overwrote all your previous
   settings.
 *  Thread Starter [briansellers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/briansellers/)
 * (@briansellers)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-stopped-working-4/#post-5777355)
 * Thanks Mark – that is what I did to fix it.. Luckily I backed up every few days
   so I didn’t lose anything.

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 * [Database Error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database-error/)

 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
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 * Last activity: [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-stopped-working-4/#post-5777355)
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