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POWordpress - Error establishing a database connection
 

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    <p>Having changed nothing on my Wordpress based site, a few days ago it simply stopped functioning. Prior to that, I was getting a larger than normal number of "site down' messages from a service that I use to monitor this site.</p> <p>Now, all I get when trying to access the site is the error listed in the title. ONLY the message "Error establishing a database connection" shows on the page - nothing else.</p> <p>I have other blog sites running on the same server and they are all still functioning. I can access the database for this website with phpmyadmin no problem. I have also done a "repair" on the wp-options table through phpmyadmin (recommended on another site).</p> <p>Lastly, I created a new php file that makes a connection to the database and then echo's data from the database upon connection. I transferred all database connection data directly from the wp-config file for this site to this new php file, so it's connecting with the exact same info.</p> <p>No problems connecting with this file.</p> <p>However, if I clear out this file and then place only the following code in it:</p> <pre><code> &lt;?php require_once '/home/bestsynt/public_html/wp-config.php'; global $current_user; get_currentuserinfo(); $level = $current_user-&gt;user_level; echo $level; ?&gt; </code></pre> <p>I receive the exact same error message. </p> <p>Since this is a relatively high traffic site and it's been down now for two days. Since the problem doesn't appear to be on the "server/host" end, I'm not likely to get much support on that end. It's something to do with Wordpress itself, but I have no idea what.</p>
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    1. COWhat's in the server error logs? Is it possible you're running out of memory?
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    2. COBut wouldn't it also affect my other sites working off the same server? I just checked my Apache and Cpanel error logs and don't see anything that seems to apply. Also tried to view the mysqld log, but there were no entries.
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    3. COAlso, all parameters of my server status seem to be in really good shape. Resource usage seems nominal.
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