Working with wp-config.php in WordPress

You will probably meet this problem after you changed your database username and password in mysql or PhpMyAdmin in your hosting server or uploaded your wordpress folder from your local computer to your hosting server. This problem always happened while we’re restoring wordpress data including mysql data between local and your server. To solve this problem, open the wp-config.php located in wordpress folder and check whether the database name, username, password and mysql server host are correctly or not.

Some hosting services includess wordpress installation feature which set the default database name to ‘mysql39285’ or something like this. So, check this one.

define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘wordpress’); // The name of the database

These are username and password which you used to login to your database account. You can get these information in mysql database under your hosting panel.

define(‘DB_USER’, ‘root’); // Your MySQL username
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘root’); // …and password

Mostly, hosting services set the default host to ‘localhost’. But some hosting sets to another mysql host. For example : mysqlserver.hosting.com

define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’);

If you have this problem, I hope this post will be useful for you.