Question
Please help! Error establishing a database connection
- Posted on November 17, 2019
- WordPress
Asked by herlanjafa
I do not change anything about database. Error detail said :
"Error establishing a database connection This either means that the username and password information in your wp-config.php file is incorrect or we can’t contact the database server at localhost. This could mean your host’s database server is down.
Are you sure you have the correct username and password? Are you sure you have typed the correct hostname? Are you sure the database server is running? If you’re unsure what these terms mean you should probably contact your host. If you still need help you can always visit the WordPress Support Forums."
i am sure have correct username, password and hostname, because i don’t change it
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Hello, herlanjafa
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zgrep will search through log files, including older log files that have been archived as compressed .tar.gz files.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_logwhen the issue occurs using tail to either check the last 100 entries in the log or monitor the log in real time:and monitor it in real time:
Hope that this helps! Regards, Alex
Hi @herlanjafa,
From a problem with the database to just wrong configuration of your wp-config.php file. Luckily, there is a good article just for these occasions here at DigitalOcean - Article.
Please follow up the article and see if you’ll be able to resolve the matter. If you don’t we can follow up on that from there.
Regards, KDSys