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Error establishing a database connection

Posted on April 27, 2016

Today I have started to see in my website this message “Error establishing a database connection”, so I was investigating and I saw this article related and I have tried to implement it but its not working for me I still getting the same issue and I have no clue why.

Below is what I have implemented from the article:

For Apache on Ubuntu 14.04, edit the configuration file with the following command:

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf Add the highlighted lines below between the <VirtualHost> tags.

Apache VirtualHost Config <VirtualHost> …
<files xmlrpc.php> order allow,deny deny from all </files> </VirtualHost> Save and close this file when you are finished.

Restart the web server to enable the changes:

sudo service apache2 restart

What is weird is when I restart the droplet the website works for a couple of seconds so… I cant figure out how to fix it.

Droplet details: 512 MB Memory / 20 GB Disk / LON1 - Ubuntu WordPress on 14.04



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Run the following after you start seeing that, and look at the output:

free -m

My bet is it looks something like this:

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          512       512        0         256        256       0
-/+ buffers/cache:       256       0
Swap:            0          0          0

If Mem and buffers/cache both show 0 free, you’re overutilizing the server, and need to move to at least a 1GB server.

You might want to verify that you’ve properly blocked requests to xmlrpc.php. You can do that with the following command:

curl -XPOST http://YOUR_DOMAIN/xmlrpc.php

if you see this, you have not blocked requests to xmlrpc.php:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<methodResponse>
  <fault>
    <value>
      <struct>
        <member>
          <name>faultCode</name>
          <value><int>-32700</int></value>
        </member>
        <member>
          <name>faultString</name>
          <value><string>parse error. not well formed</string></value>
        </member>
      </struct>
    </value>
  </fault>
</methodResponse>

Problem solve with this code…

sudo start mysql

have a nice day ! embunhati

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