cjhockey35

Resolved issue with disable/reenable of the si-contact-form plugin.

I found it in virtue/themeoptions/options.php. Lines 600-618 being the relevant ones.

I made sure that was the case, still nothing

If you’re just logging into your site you should not have to do anything. So you must be miss typing something in the login info

I also made sure the .htaccess file is in public_html and that all my files permissions are correct. Its owned by my user and the group is www-data (because apache needs access) .

I made sure index.php is first in the apache dir.conf

That worked! shouldve done it like that in the first place. Thanks to all of you

I’m going try from a clean slate and he’s the digital ocean guide and all command line. Hopefully this works. I’ll update you

I forgot to mention, but I did grant the wp user all permission to the wordpress database. Had no global privileges (left them all unchecked which was default)

Tried opening up permissions in /var/www/* where all my sites are, didnt help. chown to www-data also nothing

see my new Q with better details: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/%E2%80%9Cdatabase-connection-error%E2%80%9D-upon-install-in-apache-virtualhost-document-root?replies=2

I opened up permissions, 777, and chown to www-data:www-data for /var/www and all below, which is where all my sites are and still nothing. Yes , I tightend those backup afterwards

Oh and one more thing, does the DB name have to have wordpress in it? Mine doesnt, I highly doubt this maters, just want to confirm.

It says ‘localhost’. So if the problem isn’t the hostname what could it be? I shelled into my server and accessed mysql and SET the password for my user I created during the install (I heard this may fix the problem). I also made sure it was running. When I try to login into the mysql user I get: ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user ‘labellevie’@’localhost’ (using password: YES)

OK i set up the wp-config myself, but still an error connecting to the database. I think its the DB hostname still. Localhost doesnt make sense for it being in the virtualhost root, to me at least