Question
Database error message on wordpress based website.
- Posted on June 21, 2016
- LAMP StackCMSWordPressMySQL
Asked by josempj
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.logand/var/log/mysql.errto 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.I would suggest to check out: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-protect-wordpress-from-xml-rpc-attacks-on-ubuntu-14-04
This is not a digital ocean problem. I would contact a person with knowledge of systems administration.