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How To Fix Error Establishing A Database Connection On WordPress Website
May 6, 2025
In this tutorial I show you step by step process to Fix Error Establishing A Database Connection On Wordpress Website WATCH: https://youtu.be/Kc735X4GU6k
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In this tutorial, I'm going to show you
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how you can solve error establishing a
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database connection problem on your
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WordPress website. So, I'm trying to log
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my website, but I'm encountering this
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problem. To solve this problem is quite
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easy. All you need to do is to go ahead
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and log into your C panel. So, there are
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two ways you can log into your C panel.
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One, you can use your credentials. If
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you can still remember them,
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alternatively, if you can't remember
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your credentials, then you need to go to
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your hosting account. And from there you
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can directly log into your C panel. So
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I'll go ahead and access the C panel
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through my hosting company. And I'll log
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into my client area first. And from here
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now I'll be able to see all the websites
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that I have with this hosting company.
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As you can see I have two and the one I
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want to log into into C panel is this.
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So I'll just go ahead and use this
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option C panel login and this will take
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me directly to my C panel.
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And here we go. So in most cases you are
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experiencing this establishing database
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connection because of a configuration
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error. And from here the simplest way to
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clear this error is try to visiting your
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website through the primary domain that
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is active here. So if I go ahead and try
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and click on it you can see now I can
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visit my website and now so I'll go
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ahead and try now to log into my
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website. And now you see if I tap on
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login I should be able to login. And
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here we go. Now I can access my
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WordPress dashboard. So that's the
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easiest way you can do this. But if the
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problem persists and you can't get your
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dashboard back, then you may want to go
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ahead and visit file manager and then
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access it through the public html
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here. Yeah. And one of the reason you
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may be experiencing such problems is
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because of maybe a conflicting plug-in.
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And for this the best thing to do is to
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go ahead and and deactivate all the
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plugins because you cannot access your
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WordPress. And to deactivate your
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plugins once you are under public html
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just go ahead and click on WP content
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here. So if we go ahead
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and So if I go
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ahead and open it, you can see we have
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our plug-in folder which is this. And if
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we double click on it again now, it will
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open all the plugins that we have on our
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website. So to deactivate any of these
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plugins, just go ahead and rename the
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plugins. So for instance, maybe you are
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suspecting a cashin plugin to be the
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reason you are experiencing this
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problem. Go ahead and find it and then
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just change its name. For instance, I
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want to deactivate this and spam B
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plug-in. All I need to do is to right
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click on it and then rename it and then
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just change this name or just alter even
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by one letter. If I just delete the
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first letter and then rename the file.
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Now if I go ahead under my
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plugins I'll find I should be able to
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find that plugin inactive. Now let's see
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and look at that. Now it is inactive yet
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it was active. So you can do the same
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for all the other plugins and then try
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logging into your WordPress dashboard
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and this time around you should be able
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to do so. However, should this not solve
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your problem then then you may want to
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go ahead and contact and contact your
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web hosting company and they should try
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to troubleshoot this problem from their
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end. And now everything should be okay.
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So if you have any other question,
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kindly let me know in the comment
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section. Otherwise, if this video was
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let's meet in the next video.