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WordPress is a sophisticated framework and a lot of help available online. Please have a look in your wp-config.php and also check the followings to make sure that configuration is correct.<\/p>\n
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\n \/** MySQL hostname *\/
\ndefine(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’);<\/p>\n
:: Normally this constant remain as it is as localhost, make sure that your phpmyadmin referring to the same host.<\/p>\n
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\n \/** MySQL database username *\/
\n define(‘DB_USER’, ‘yourmysqluser’);<\/p>\n
:: It has prefix of your domain name sometimes and mostly it has first eight letters of your domain with underscore. You can check it from you cpanel.
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By clicking on MySql Databases, you can have a look on existing databases and users. <\/p>\n
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\/** MySQL database password *\/
\n define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘yourmysqlpassword’);<\/p>\n
:: You can not obviously reset your password, just remove exisitng user and create a new one. And don’t forget to add that user to the required database, it means that you are giving that user specific or all privillages for DQL, DML etc. <\/p>\n
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\nOnce you have created or checked the username, password and database etc. Now access phpmyadmin from your cpanel.
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And verify that do you putting DB_HOST & DB_NAME correctly?
\nIf everything is correct but still wordpress is displaying the same error, go to your wp-config.php and check do the followings:<\/p>\n
1- Try to connect to your database by simple php mysql_connect() function.<\/p>\n
2- Try to echo your constants which are DB_HOST, DB_NAME etc, are they displaying the correct information?<\/p>\n
3- Hopefully you will get your problem resolved, if not yet then try a different copy of wordpress to install again. Or finally you can have a look on your hosting as well, sometimes we get PHP running fine but hostings do have separate databases servers. Hosting support will guide you regarding this. Error establishing a database connection is obviously a simple but can make trouble when it prevents our website to be displayed just after uploading it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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