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Posted by Andrew Milne
Andrew Milne
10,071 Points

Database Error for all local sites

HELP! No idea what I have done but all of a sudden every site I have on my laptop which I try to load via localhost is throwing up "A Database Error Occurred. Unable to connect to your database server using the provided settings." even though the very same websites connecting to the very same databases were working fine a few days ago. Ive tried installing a new wordpress site from scratch and I have the same problem, and Im even getting the same error message when just loading http://localhost/. If anyone can tell me what might of happened and how I can fix it that would be great. Im guessing I must have changed something behind the scenes but I have no idea what or how I did it.

4 Answers

Alan Johnson
Alan Johnson
7,625 Points
Alan Johnson
Alan Johnson
7,625 Points

Can you tell us a bit more about what platform you're on and what database you're using? It sounds like maybe your database server isn't running.

Andrew Milne
Andrew Milne
10,071 Points
Andrew Milne
Andrew Milne
10,071 Points

I'm using windows 8.1 and MySQL. According to xampp control panel both Apache and MySQL seem to be running, as far as I can tell

Alan Johnson
Alan Johnson
7,625 Points
Alan Johnson
Alan Johnson
7,625 Points

Interesting. What settings are you using for your WordPress site locally?

Andrew Milne
Andrew Milne
10,071 Points
Andrew Milne
Andrew Milne
10,071 Points

Hi Alan, I don't think it was an issue with Wordpress. Something had obviously happened to my Xampp installation (although I have no idea what). I uninstalled Xampp and reinstalled it and that seems to have fixed the issue thankfully. Thank you for your help though.