Question
Wordpress Error - "Error Establishing Connection"
- Posted on October 27, 2020
- WordPress
Asked by oasysdigital
Hello,
I just launched a droplet of $5 for my new wordpress blog. i was customizing it and one error continuously appearing.
Website has no content but still it shows the following error
“Error Establishing Connection”
how to solve this?
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Hello, @oasysdigital
I will recommend you to double check the database details from the
wp-config.phpfile and also make sure that MySQL/MariaDB is running as well.Also make sure to double check our existing tutorial on how to troubleshoot this error on your droplet.
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-debug-the-wordpress-error-establishing-database-connection
Hope that this helps! Regards, Alex
The error itself is simply telling you it cannot connect to the assuming local mysql server?
You want to ensure the DB server is actually running, you can usually do this via SSH and simply type in mysqladmin -u root -p status, if its running then you should get a prompt, otherwise it will error out telling you the DB server is not running.
If it is running then you will want to check you WP-config to see what DB server / port it’s looking at. Ensure the username and password are working as well.
Hi Thanks for reply Dikshit
I tried to run few commands but it shows error
like when I run the command
sudo netstat -plt
it says
sudo: netstat: command not found
am i doing right?