Error establishing a database connection — I’M LOST.

Have you created a database yet?
Are your database credentials correct, aka dbname/username/password?
Do the following credentials appear exactly the same in your wp-config.php? Is your host’s database up and running?

Looks like you also need to fill in your Secret key values.

Visit this link:

https://api.www.ads-software.com/secret-key/1.1/

and copy/paste the randomly generated values into wp-config, as stated in your wp-config file.

Have you created a database yet?
Are your database credentials correct, aka dbname/username/password?
Do the following credentials appear exactly the same in your wp-config.php? Is your host’s database up and running?

Looks like you also need to fill in your Secret key values.

Visit this link:

https://api.www.ads-software.com/secret-key/1.1/

and copy/paste the randomly generated values into wp-config, as stated in your wp-config file.

I’ve checked, and the answer is yes. I even copied the secret key values from a generator.

HERE IS MY wp-config file now:

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<?php
// ** MySQL settings ** //
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘wordpressblog’); // The name of the database
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘missmelodrama’); // Your MySQL username
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘xxxxxxxxxx’); // …and password
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value
define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);
define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);

// Change each KEY to a different unique phrase. You won’t have to remember the phrases later,
// so make them long and complicated. You can visit https://api.www.ads-software.com/secret-key/1.1/
// to get keys generated for you, or just make something up. Each key should have a different phrase.
define(‘AUTH_KEY’, ‘g*;1&i-:^\’^O;_.`q<5^F3\\}jj#S!iISX$Q|!I%|\’7:HG!L]-8-\”SgO?,E[/\”N I’);
define(‘SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘ikktM^dmFIpki*B5YqW\\Bag@LEX?j*K6VsyM}8v`p6G\” #^[rT/qQfWS_uP/?5$E’);
define(‘LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘5.Mec9HuU[4=R Lu394^q_MRGIS;4&E?|O](b282z)yDOAL7c1R=[BqdLWaC9^’);

// You can have multiple installations in one database if you give each a unique prefix
$table_prefix = ‘wp_’; // Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!

// Change this to localize WordPress. A corresponding MO file for the
// chosen language must be installed to wp-content/languages.
// For example, install de.mo to wp-content/languages and set WPLANG to ‘de’
// to enable German language support.
define (‘WPLANG’, ”);

/* That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */

if ( !defined(‘ABSPATH’) )
define(‘ABSPATH’, dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/’);
require_once(ABSPATH . ‘wp-settings.php’);
?>
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Still Database Error. https://missmelodrama.com/

Now, I’m really really lost. What’s wrong with the database? I can’t seem to make it work.

Thanks for the help anyway. Any more suggestions?

Thanks.

Airah

Error establishing a database connection

This error means one thing: That it could not connect to the database. So either the username/password/hostname are wrong, or the database is not running, or the box cannot talk to the database because of some network related reason.

That’s it. That’s the only possible problems. So figure out which one it is. We can’t much help you with that beyond telling you this, because we don’t have access to your setup.

I find that a lot of people simply ignore the hostname because it says it’s 99% likely to be localhost but in many cases, it is not. Are you sure you can use localhost?