Title: WP database in a different server?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# WP database in a different server?

 *  [fifteen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fifteen/)
 * (@fifteen)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-database-in-a-different-server/)
 * I’m trying to install WP for this site, but I have the WP database set up on 
   a different site. The owner of the domain the site is hosted on has limited resources
   so I’m using someone else’s domain.
    The thing is, I don’t know how to direct
   the files to the database. I uploaded the WP files on the other domain, but when
   I link the wp-blog-header.php to it, I get an error. The site shows up, except
   the WP part. Is there some way to do this? I really don’t know how to do absolute
   paths in php. Is it even possible to do this?

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 *  [Sushubh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sushubh/)
 * (@sushubh)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-database-in-a-different-server/#post-57974)
 * i need to know something like this but for a refer script that calls a database
   on another server… how do we do that???
 *  Thread Starter [fifteen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fifteen/)
 * (@fifteen)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-database-in-a-different-server/#post-58156)
 * I tried uploading the WP files on my server, but of course, the database isn’t
   in the same server. Mehhhh.
    Help?
 *  [Sushubh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sushubh/)
 * (@sushubh)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-database-in-a-different-server/#post-58161)
 * there is a setting in config where we place localhost. i think it has something
   to do with that. now how do we know the sql server address?

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 * Last reply from: [Sushubh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sushubh/)
 * Last activity: [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-database-in-a-different-server/#post-58161)
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