Error Connecting To Database [solved]

	Error Connecting To Database [solved]
	Discussion by Illustrious with 5 Replies. Last Update: December 21, 2010, 11:24 pm

Illustrious

I installed wordpress on my website and I get an error when I try to access the page with my blog. I have edited the wp-config.php file accordingly but it still gives me the "Error Connecting to Database" error.

In my wp-config.php file, I have:

CODE

/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define('DB_NAME', '********_databasename');

/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', '********_user');

/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'MySQLuserPass');

/** MySQL hostname */
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');

I already created a user and a database for WordPress, added the user to the database and added permissions to access the database. I don't know why it is not working for me. Another site I looked at said that capitalizing the "L" in localhost might solve the problem but that did not work for me.

Sun Dec 19, 2010 Reply New Discussion

Qrntz

I am not sure that's the case here, but some webhosts have a configuration where localhost does not work for a database host. In some weird cases even changing it to 127.0.0.1 which is basically the same worked.
I wonder how it's sorted out here at Astahost though.

Sun Dec 19, 2010 Reply New Discussion

yordan

QUOTE (Qrntz)

Here at astahost it's simply localhost.

Mon Dec 20, 2010 Reply New Discussion

starscream

When you're hosting on local server which you're right now because you uploaded files to this server then you've to enter 'localhost'. For network drives and multiple installation from single install you need to enter the name or IP of the host. Don't bother about it for now and just enter 'localhost'.

I don't know why you're manually installing wordpress because you can install 2 update back of wordpress. Besides that most of the asta and computinghost has new update for wordpress released. Now just install this upgraded from fantastico and in future upgrade from your dashboard.

If you fail to upgrade from dashboard then simply install using 'wordpress automatic upgrade' plugin that is in repository.

Mon Dec 20, 2010 Reply New Discussion

Illustrious

QUOTE (starscream)

Wow. I did not know that I could install WordPress automatically. I still haven't been able to fix the "Error connecting to database" error but my blog seemed to be working perfectly after I used this method. Thanks!

Tue Dec 21, 2010 Reply New Discussion

imjjss

Sometimes this "error connecting to database" can happen because of server down. But I guess this might not be the reason because we are not in "free-package" with ASTA.

Tue Dec 21, 2010 Reply New Discussion