I have to migrate the files from a website in Wordpress to a new server, however I would like the database to stay on the old server.
I tried to 'wp-config.php' change 'localhost' to panel PHPmyadmin: 'http://admin.*****.com/mysql/' put me back: Error Establishing a database connection.
the users and passwords'm sure that is correct, the url I'm not sure, Its possible?
Thanks.
If on shared hosting, you most likely have to enable 'Remote MySQL' to allow for external connection to the database. Check with your host to see if you have access to this feature or for documentation.
GoDaddy Connecting Remotely to Shared Hosting Databases
Hostgator
If the database stays on the old server you have to change localhost in the wp-config.php on the new server to the MySQL-Server-Address of the old server
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As WordPress uses a wp-config file for connecting with the main database, and usually the database server is hosted on the same platform. But I want to use a third-party service or database provided by another hosting platform.
For example,
The website is hosted on Siteground and it will use database services from Bluehost.
I have tried this by setting all the details in wp-config file,
dbname
username
Password etc.
but I'm facing Error Connecting With Database. Could you please suggest to me, Is it possible with WordPress or what are the other ways?
I am currently programming a launcher in Visual Studio that gets the version history from a MySQL server. I have run into an issue where I cannot connect to the database if I use a public login for the database. If I use the root login I can connect on my local machine but no other. This is what I am using with subins to protect my data:
"server='serverip';user='severusername';password='serverpassword';database'databasename'"
If I use the root password, it will connect on my local computer. If I use my godaddy hosting database, it will also work on any computer. The MySQL server I am connecting to is on my local computer and running WAMP. Does anyone know a way to get it to work? My user has full permissions. This is programmed in Visual Studio using Visual Basic.
It appears that you have a typo:
database'databasename'
Should that not be:
database='databasename'
Also, it could be that godaddy does not allow remote connections for MySQL so when you try to connect from your local WAMP installation to their remote MySQL server the connection is denied. This is more than likely the case as the bandwidth cost for this can become quite huge very quickly. You should however be able to run things in the shared hosting environment using localhost as the server/hostname.
I fixed it by adding 2 cases of my user. One with a host of localhost and another with a host of 127.0.0.1
I have been recently using "localhost" as my mysql database, and now i want to update my website to web.
I took free hosting at "serversfree.com" and uploaded all my web files there.Now i have problem.I made mysql database on that website, and uploaded my mysql database from localhost.
I can go to that server and list all files i have in that mysql database, but when i want to connect my .php documents i don't know how.What to put under "hostname" (i was recently using only localhost).Do i need to put a link where my web mysql database is?
Or i need to put a link where my website is?
I tried both but didn't worked for me
Most web hosts I've used have MySQL running on the same box so I usually can keep localhost as the server.
Your host should have some documentation on where to point the server to.
Check if your database credentials, are from a valid user in that database..
What hostname did you use to upload your mysql database from localhost? It would be the same hostname. Probably mysql.serversfree.com. If their mysql server is on the same subdomain then you can use localhost as well. To connect your php scripts to a mysql server you need to use the hostname of the mysql server, not the hostname of your http server.
If your mysql is running in the same server then you can use localhost or 127.0.0.1 but if mysql is in another server probably you need remote connections
I have a WordPress website, which is not done by me, all I need to do is connect to its database remotely and query some results from its database. The point is that I don't know anything about WordPress, and I saw that the database information are written inside the wp-config.php file, when I opened it, there was the username and password, but the host name was this:
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');
Which seems a bit curious to me. The website uses cPanel X from GoDaddy, and when I logged in there and opened phpMyAdmin, it had these information under database server part:
Server: Localhost via UNIX socket
So, I really don't know how to remotely connect to the database and query things, because host name says localhost. I'm used to ASP.NET MVC, and where I specify the host name to be the actual server ip or hostname of the database server. Any idea how should I proceed?
This is probably a better question for superuser as it's technically a hosting related question. That being said, you would need to contact GoDaddy and find out if they even allow remote MySQL connections on their servers. Most hosting companies disable external connections to the MySQL server on port 3306, but if you portscan your domain name/IP and see 3306 open then you can probably remote connect to it. Just use the domain name/IP of your site as the host, and pull the user/pass/db name from the config file.
You can do this by using command line.
GRANT ALL ON wpdb.* TO wpuser#`192.168.2.25` IDENTIFIED BY `Pa55w0rd!`;
Check here for a detailed tutorial.
I am hosting a site on 1and1, and having trouble connecting to a MySQL database.
I am very new to MySQL and PHP, so I'm not sure I did this right.
Under my domain,
choose Web Space>MySQL Administration
(get taken to PHPMyAdmin)
New Database
Once DB has finished setup,
use "host", "username" and "password" given by 1and1 to connect Dreamweaver.
I tried doing this, but Dreamweaver gives me an "Unknown error", which doesn't help at all, as it doesn't even give an error *code.
It's pretty common on shared hosting to allow db connections only from apps running on their servers. Connections from other clients are blocked/rejected.
If you are able to connect your Dreamweaver to a local (on your machine) MySQL server, then it's probably the case that 1and1 is blocking your remote access.
1and1 do not permit external connections to the databases
You should still be fine to connect with dreamweaver. That error you get is usually because the publishing URL (usually the same as default www.domainnamehere.com) hasn't been configured in DW under the Testing Server section yet.