My Wordpress site is having errors.

[neosurfer2695]

Hi,
My Wordpress site is having problems, I think it's Wordpress because I didn't delete the admin.php for the older site, and can still access that, however I can't access the Wordpress site, now maybe that's because Corey is updating something that only affects the Wordpress site.
If there is anything you can do that would be great.
Thanks-

P.S. My site has been down all day.

 

[Smith6612]

Your problem is most likely due to the MySQL work as I visited your website and got a database connect error. Keep an eye on this forum for news on the progress of Corey moving MySQL to a faster server.

http://forums.x10hosting.com/service-alerts/

EDIT: Corey JUST posted that Lotus is the next server to be transferred to the new MySQL server.

 

[pg.security]

Joomla and phpbb have been having issues to.

 

[shrinidhirao]

I am on Chopin.

For wordpress, I changed the DB_HOST from mysql-chopin.x10hosting.com TO localhost.

Things started to work immediately.

 

[mappeal]

@ shrinidhirao (or anyone else able to give me a hand)

would you be so kind as to tell me HOW TO change that DB_HOST to local host? I've been looking around but can't seem to be able to find it.

thanks a bunch

M.A.

 

[shrinidhirao]

@ shrinidhirao (or anyone else able to give me a hand)

would you be so kind as to tell me HOW TO change that DB_HOST to local host? I've been looking around but can't seem to be able to find it.

thanks a bunch

M.A.

I presume that you are having wordpress installed previously and now [after the recent mysql upgrades] are encountering 'Error establishing database connection'.

This is how I solved mu issue.
1. Log in to your cPanel.
2. Go to File manager.
3. Locate the file wp-config.php
4. Edit the file [online or offline].
5. Locate the following lines
/** MySQL hostname */
define('DB_HOST', 'your.sql.host.address');
Here your.sql.host.address was mysql-chopin.x10hosting.com in my case. It may be different for your server.
6. Replace your.sql.host.address with localhost
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');
7. Save the file. [Upload it if you have edited offline]
8. Refresh your browser.
9. Voila!!!

Hope it helps.