HELP- Database crash..Can't get in!!

  • Hi,
    Was updating a post on my blog, everything went fine. Went to check out my site and the home page will load but am getting this on every internal post link except the one I had updated:
    Error establishing a database connection

    Worse, I can no longer log-in at all and get this:

    Error establishing a database connection
    Internal Server Error

    The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

    The only maintenance I had done was to rewrite the sitemap through my host’s user console. Prior to today I always used the Google Sitemaps plugin. Am wondering if their console routine somehow messed things up.

    My host has looked at it twice and says it’s loading ok and things are fine hardware wise. No more help coming from that quarter.

    I can go in through Filezilla and see the sitemap files and what’s curious is the .old file is about 700K, the new is 1.7mb and both use the convention of name.sitemap.old or .xml. But there is yet another called just sitemap.xml that is only 39K. So I’m thinking maybe the little one was incompletely written or something? Or am I off target and these have nothing to do with it?

    Please HELP.

    Thanks.
    Mark

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  • Try:
    – switching to the Twenty Ten theme by renaming your current theme’s folder in wp-content/themes using FTP or whatever file management application your host provides.

    – resetting the plugins folder by FTP or phpMyAdmin.

    Thread Starter MarkS1

    (@marks1)

    thanks. My host’s techie decided to keep trying but I’m not sure she’s on the right track. She’s creating phantom dir’s and dummy login.php’s. I did find this great tutorial that explains what the guy says is the problem 99% of the time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xu1zWxNBh0

    It’s a little dated by the wp-config.php still looks like his example.

    I got the wp-config.php opened and sure enough the entries he mentions don’t look right. And I notice just above the section it mentions being updated by WP Cache. I always clear the caches when making some changes and I had just done that, too. I may have cleared caches and hit “update” too quickly or something and goofed it up.

    She’s still playing around with it so I don’t wanna interject but will go in to check it out.

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