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After changing droplet root password databse error coming on wordpress website.

Posted on October 12, 2015

After changing droplet root password databse error coming on wordpress website.



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Have you started the MySQL service back after changing the root password?

sudo service mysql start

You can check if MySQL is running using the following command:

sudo ps wwaux | grep mysql

If you see a mysql process, then it’s running.

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