password for wordpress DB parsed wrong

  • Resolved g2secure

    (@g2secure)


    1 year, 5 months ago

    I was using a wordpress db password “4?ZUhG4u8wAwu\$V@” — Without the quotes. It was causing the chat messages to be blank.

    Just like this in the wp-config.php file.

    /** Database password */
    define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, “4?ZUhG4u8wAwu\$V@”);

    the program wp-config-parser.php fails to parse the password because of the special chars. result is that CHAT goes blank…. gets error like

    AH01071: Got error ‘PHP message: PHP Warning: mysqli::__construct(): (HY000/1045): Access denied for user ‘useridxxxx’@’localhost’ (using password: YES) in /var/www/vhosts/xxxxxxxx.com/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/wise-chat/src/endpoints/ultra/index.php on line 57′, referer: https://xxxxx.com/

    I changed the password on the wordpress database to something less crazy, without the special chars, and the chat now shows on the screen.

    WP 6.3.2. Wisechat 3.1.7

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  • Plugin Author Marcin

    (@marcinlawrowski)

    Hello,

    It looks the backslash character is escaped by PHP while passing to mysqli constructor. Please avoid this character in password phrase.

    Thread Starter g2secure

    (@g2secure)

    thank you for figuring this out. Many people use automatic password generators and they sometimes add “\” in the password.

    Thanks

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