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Error establishing a database connection wordpress

Posted on March 24, 2017

Error establishing a database connection wordpress. Is there any proper solution? I have tried many things but after 2 to 4 days same error occurs.



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Thank you. I have already 1gb/30gb server. This error never occurs in shared hosting.

You can use this script to restart your server whenever there is database connection error. https://github.com/Gurnoor30196/Launch-Mysql

Hello, @avdi

Have you checked the MySQL error_log in order to see if the server is running out of memory or if the issue is with to many MySQL connections? As per the tutorial you can run this command in order to check if the server have recently run out of memory:

zgrep -a "allocate memory" /var/log/mysql/error.log*

zgrep will search through log files, including older log files that have been archived as compressed .tar.gz files. We’re searching for lines that contain allocate memory, in any error.log* file in the /var/log/mysql/ directory.

You can always login and check the MySQL error_log when the issue occurs using tail to either check the last 100 entries in the log or monitor the log in real time:

tail -n 100 /var/log/mysql/error.log

and monitor it in real time:

tail -f /var/log/mysql/error.log

Hope that this helps! Regards, Alex

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