Error in Database Connection

Just so it is clear, a database DOES NOT have a password. A database user has a password. A database user is granted permissions (or privileges) to do certain things to a database.

Also so it is clear, the WordPress login/password that is accessed via the wp-login.php script, is in NO WAY associated with the database user/password specified in the wp-config.php file.

Also, you mentioned the URL https://wordpress.com/wp-login.php. Now wordpress.COM is a whole separate thing from your own self-hosted blog.

Please provide a link to your blog so we can see the problem.

You seem to be in a total mess and confusion, sorry.

If you have your own hosted blog… what are you doing at wordpress.COM?

Where is your blog?
How did you change the database password and why?
What is the the “Administrative PAssword”?
(you are throwing around words and expressions nobody understands…)
No, nobody ever said your DB pw has to be the same as anything…

Will you try it again in a clearer fashion?

The only way to access my blog is to login through my website. The blog is https://www.sistahspursuit.com/sistahssoundoff/.

When I login through my website, it states “The site database appears to be down”. I was told by GoDaddy that the password I have for MySQL Database that was created for my WordPress blog (visitors register through my website to access the blog) has to be the same as the Admin password I created during the installation of WordPress. This password is the same password I was able to use to login as an admininstrator for my WordPress blog (If you go to wordpress.com and click on the login button, you are directed to https://wordpress.com/wp-login.php).

Please let me know if there are any WordPress files I can update to change my Admin password. I already updated the file wp-config.php which defines MySQL username and password, with my new database password.

As of now, I can not access my WordPress account with my old or new password, and visitors that sign in through my website can not access the blog either.

Thanks for your help.

See various methods in Resetting your password.

Ok –

I tried some of the examples in the Resetting your Password link, but it has not worked. Maybe because there are no options for Version 2.2.1 – I don’t know. Being that I am not too familiar with phpMyAdmin, with all the warnings of possibly losing your data, I do not want to use that option.

I changed my MySQL database password back to its original password, so that it may be the same as the Admin password that I created during the WordPress installation. I also updated the wp-config file with the original database password. With these changes, users are now able to access my WordPress blog.

However, when I try to login as the Administrator, WordPress does not remember my Username or Password, or Email address anymore. It states that they are invalid. And on top of the WordPress login page this is posted:

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/content/s/i/s/sistahs/html/sistahssoundoff/wp-config.php:47) in /home/content/s/i/s/sistahs/html/sistahssoundoff/wp-login.php on line 12

I don’t know what this means. I don’t know what’s going on anymore. All I know is that I need some help. It doesn’t help that users are able to access my blog but I can’t do anything with it.

Please Help!

Also – Just tried to login again with my WordPress Username and Password and this message pops up (I didn’t even touch these files):

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/content/s/i/s/sistahs/html/sistahssoundoff/wp-config.php:47) in /home/content/s/i/s/sistahs/html/sistahssoundoff/wp-login.php on line 12

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/content/s/i/s/sistahs/html/sistahssoundoff/wp-config.php:47) in /home/content/s/i/s/sistahs/html/sistahssoundoff/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 369

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/content/s/i/s/sistahs/html/sistahssoundoff/wp-config.php:47) in /home/content/s/i/s/sistahs/html/sistahssoundoff/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 370

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/content/s/i/s/sistahs/html/sistahssoundoff/wp-config.php:47) in /home/content/s/i/s/sistahs/html/sistahssoundoff/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 331

You have an empty line or a space after the last closing ?> in your wp-config file.

Moshu – If you were here now, I would kiss you. Thank you. I have discovered that I can not log into my account by using the link:
https://wordpress.com/wp-login.php
I can only login by using: https://www.sistahspursuit.com/sistahssoundoff/wp-login.php
Is this because my blog is hosted by GoDaddy?

Also, would you happen to know how I can change my WordPress installation password? Even though I am able to change my MySQL database password, update the wp-config file, and update my password via https://www.sistahspursuit.com/sistahssoundoff/wp-login.php (each having the same password), when visitors try to access my blog, this message appears “The site database appears to be down”.

Thank you for your help!

Your problem is that you talk/write so much that you don’t have time to read carefully the instructions given to you.

– it has been told that wordpress.COM has nothing to do with your blog hosted elsewhere. Yet, you are like a broken record… asking the same idiotic question again and again;
– you were given resoruces to reset your pw; you ignored them;
– you have a totally screwed up site system with zillion logins, passwords and God knows what: nobody will ever go through all that BS to figure out what you are talking about

Read, read and read.
Then write short sentences, brief concrete questions.
Don’t give useless links.
If you don’t want to learn the basics – give up being a webmaster.

Now I am going to sleep.

Moshu,

I never said I was a webmaster. This is my first time using WordPress. And it’s unfortunate that I am just receiving your message that you sent me 2 days ago. Maybe, I would not have been rambling on, as you suggest. I utilized the link that MichaelH provided me (thank you) as I stated previously, but I guess those options did not work since I guess GoDaddy provided me with my self-hosted blog.

This forum is to help your users; no question is idiotic. GoDaddy has not been helpful and frankly is unknowledgeable, that’s why I used this support forum. I am just not as educated as you, but I have been trying to educate myself. I thank you for your assistance anyway.