OK Guys – Still the same

  • OK – this is for all of you who lent some great support yesterday, including MichaelH who now has a new ISP. . .

    Reloaded everything, re-did the config file, installed everything, crossed everything crossable.

    Accessed this and followed everything to a proverbial “T”.
    Originally got this message when I tried to run install

    Error establishing a database connection
    This either means that the username and password information in your wp-config.php file is incorrect or we can’t contact the database server at mysql.kovachcommunications.com. This could mean your host’s database server is down.

    Checked everything on the isp, cross checked everything yet again and ran install and now I got this message that I cannot even begin to understand. . .
    Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING in /nfs/cust/4/8/9/kovach/blog/wp-config.php on line 4

    Any ideas?

    With all the help that you folks have lent to this, I just cannot give up. . .

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  • How about posting the content of your wp-config.php file? WITHOUT THE PASSWORD! And enclose the whole thing in those backticks – being sure not to leave any newline-type whitespace….

    Thread Starter Billk

    (@billk)

    Vkaryl – Thank you.
    Lets see what this brings –

    <?php
    // ** MySQL settings ** //
    define('DB_NAME','kovach'); // The name of the database
    define('DB_USER','kovach'); // Your MySQL username
    define('DB_PASSWORD','123456789'); // ...and password
    define('DB_HOST','mysql.kovachcommunications.com');

    Remember, I”m not a programmer or code guy.

    It looks like you are missing part of the file.

    <?php
    // ** MySQL settings ** //
    define('DB_NAME', 'kovach'); // The name of the database
    define('DB_USER', 'kovach'); // Your MySQL username
    define('DB_PASSWORD', 'kovach'); // ...and password
    define('DB_HOST', 'mysql.kovachcommunications.com'); // 99% chance you won't need to change this value
    // You can have multiple installations in one database if you give each a unique prefix
    $table_prefix = 'wp_'; // Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!
    // Change this to localize WordPress. A corresponding MO file for the
    // chosen language must be installed to wp-includes/languages.
    // For example, install de.mo to wp-includes/languages and set WPLANG to 'de'
    // to enable German language support.
    define ('WPLANG', '');
    /* That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */
    define('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__).'/');
    require_once(ABSPATH.'wp-settings.php');
    ?>

    Or a version with the unneeded comments deleted:

    <?php
    define('DB_NAME', 'kovach');
    define('DB_USER', 'kovach');
    define('DB_PASSWORD', 'kovach');
    define('DB_HOST', 'mysql.kovachcommunications.com');
    $table_prefix = 'wp_';
    define ('WPLANG', '');
    define('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__).'/');
    require_once(ABSPATH.'wp-settings.php');
    ?>

    Of course you’ll use your own password.

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