Wordpress Installation "Error establishing a database connection".
Hello I have had wordpress installed and working perfectly but today I found an error on my site saying “Error establishing a database connection” and on the wp-admin page I see this: http://i.imgur.com/Ktaurvh.png
I have had a look at this article: http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-fix-the-error-establishing-a-database-connection-in-wordpress/ but I don’t remember mysql database password…
I can’t even remember what I named it tho looking in my wp-config.php file I see:
define(‘DBNAME’, 'wordpress’);
define('DBUSER’, 'wordpress’);
I used a one click install and i can not remember if i set this or if its default.
Is myphpadmin down? can i check without the password? can I find the password.
I have root access. Droplet stats 512MB Ram - 20GB - SSD Disk - New York 3 - Ubuntu WordPress on 14.04
Looking in my /var/log/syslog this is all that’s there but it does seem to be today’s date.
Jun 18 06:39:01 ***sitename-censored*** CRON[13943]: (root) CMD ( [ -x /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime ] && [ -x /usr/lib/php5/sessionclean ] && [ -d /var/lib/php5 ] && /usr/lib/php5/sessionclean /var/lib/php5 $(/usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime))
If you have root access, I would start by connecting to SSH and restart the server to make sure that any service gets restarted.
If you think that the info on your wp-config.php file is not correct something most of happen that change it. You can find out your DB name by SSH with the following code set
To find out the users you can run
Lastly to change a password for a user you can run
hope this helps you figure out. Let us know if you have nay other questions
Good Luck!!