While you start using WordPress, you have to encounter a number of errors. There are several problems for which you think what causes this error as well as what does it mean?
If you want to correct the problem as well as get your site working again, then you may flow these instructions.
Repair Database using WordPress
A corrupt database may lead to several errors during set up the database connection in WordPress web development. You may repair your database by WordPress via inserting a line of code to your wp-config file.
To perform this, you have to access your files utilizing FileZilla FTP client as well as your cPanel information. After successfully connecting via FTP, you can see your site files in the bottom right window. Now you have to find the folder that has your WordPress site files, just double-click to open it. Typically, this folder is public_html, if your WordPress site is situated on your main domain. If it is located in a subdomain, then you would find a folder named after your subdomain which would contain your files.
In this folder, search the wp-config.php file, then right-click on it as well as select View/Edit.
Define (‘WP_ALLOW_REPAIR’, true);
Next, save as well as close the file. FileZilla will help you to upload the updated file, click Yes.
Now go to this URL (change ‘domain’ with your domain name)
Click the Repair Database.
While the repair completes, access your site to see if the DB problem is fixed. If yes, then the issue was corruption in the database.
Checking Your Database Login Credentials
If you’re still having problems it may be a MySQL credentials problem. Things like changing hosting companies, changing database names, resetting passwords, or running the incorrect MySQL queries could cause such issues if your wp-config file didn’t update for reflecting the new information.
Come back to your wp-config file if you didn’t stay it open as well as look for a section somewhere near the begin of the file that looks like this,
- define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘database-name’);
- define(‘DB_USER’, ‘database-username’);
- define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘database-password’);
- define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’);
You may see the details WordPress require to connect to your database, username, database name, password as well as the host computer. If something is incorrect, WordPress may not connect to the data. If you have any suspicion, you may check on your database from your cPanel dashboard, which usually has an attribute called PHPMyAdmin for using databases outside of WordPress. You have to make a backup of the database first.
For this log into PHPMyAdmin as well as you’ll find a list of databases on the left. Click the one that equivalent to the name of the database you have in your wp-config.php file. If you don’t see any database listed, the issue might be with the host server, not the database, since there should be a MySQL database.
