Question
Wordpress site is down and won't come back up
- Posted on August 14, 2014
Asked by farooqyousuf1
My Wordpress site has gone down and will not reboot. The error is:
Error establishing a database connection
I’ve tried restarting from the console and UI, but no luck. I have a swap as well.
This isn’t the first time this has happened either, although it happened after a long time…
Any permanent solutions to this recurring and annoying problem???
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Apache logs:
root@farooqyousuf:~# tail /var/log/apache2/error.log [Thu Aug 14 01:04:53 2014] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down [Thu Aug 14 01:05:03 2014] [notice] Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.3.10-1ubuntu3.11 with Suhosin-Patch configured – resuming normal operations [Thu Aug 14 01:10:13 2014] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down [Thu Aug 14 01:10:29 2014] [notice] Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.3.10-1ubuntu3.11 with Suhosin-Patch configured – resuming normal operations [Thu Aug 14 03:26:50 2014] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down [Thu Aug 14 03:27:01 2014] [notice] Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.3.10-1ubuntu3.11 with Suhosin-Patch configured – resuming normal operations [Thu Aug 14 03:29:25 2014] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down [Thu Aug 14 03:29:33 2014] [notice] Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.3.10-1ubuntu3.11 with Suhosin-Patch configured – resuming normal operations [Thu Aug 14 03:48:11 2014] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down [Thu Aug 14 03:48:28 2014] [notice] Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.3.10-1ubuntu3.11 with Suhosin-Patch configured – resuming normal operations root@farooqyousuf:~# tail /var/log/apache2/error.log