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WordPress

Sue Dough
Sue Dough
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Posted by Sue Dough
Sue Dough
35,800 Points

Error Establishing Database Connection Hack

Ever had a wordpress site go down? Nothing is worst than your clients/users/members etc seeing an "error establishing database connection".

I want to share a hack with you guys.

You can add a file called db-error.php in your wp-content folder. Add the following snippet at the top of the file.

<?php header("HTTP/1.0 500 Internal Server Error"); ?>

You can then make a static HTML page with inline CSS. You could make a cool page for this error when it comes up.

Do not use us get header or get footer as your site can't connect.

<?php get_header(); ?> 

or

<?php get_footer(); ?>

Let me know if you have any questions. This is an undiscussed topic but great for building big sites with lots of traffic that can go down.