Question
Database error message on wordpress based website.
- Posted June 21, 2016
- LAMP StackCMSWordPressMySQL
My server is a Ubuntu-Lamp 14.04 droplet named economas-droplet-ubuntu. I noticed that sometimes when I tried to access the website it will have a databased errror related message “Error establishing a database connection” I was fixing this issue by power cycling the droplet, but since yesterday this hasn’t worked at all.
Please let me know if you can guide me to find a solution to this problem since I have an important meeting tomorrow.
Thank you,
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Login to the server and check the following files for errors /var/log/mysql/error.log, /var/log/mysql.log and /var/log/mysql.err to find the root cause of the issue.
You can try running the following command to restart the mysql server manually
sudo service mysql restart, please note that might be a temporary fix as you need to find what causes the mysql server to stop.
This is not a digital ocean problem. I would contact a person with knowledge of systems administration.
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