Sudden WordPress Server Crash

  • Resolved Jordan Kinne

    (@jmkinne)


    9 years, 3 months ago

    Hey guys.

    I have a website running on an AWS EC2 server. Pointed to an elastic public IP. usethewall.com is my domain.

    None of us at my company had been working on it this week, but when I went to access it today, I got nothing. Chrome spit back: “Error establishing a database connection.” I went in and restarted the EC2 server, and now Chrome just gives the standard “err_connection_refused”

    At this point, I can’t figure out what happened. I’ve SSH’ed into the server, accessed all the files. Everything is in tact, and it didn’t spit out any error pages that I’ve been able to find.

    Hoping someone has advice for when the WordPress app just seems to stop running? We hadn’t gone super far with formatting on the site, but I’d hate to have to clean install.

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  • Hi,

    Can you tell us the server installed? Ubuntu, Centos or something else?

    Have you tried restarting apache & mysql service in server?

    Thread Starter Jordan Kinne

    (@jmkinne)

    Solved it.

    You were on the right path, Vijay. At some point the EC2 server must have gone down, and when it came back up, both my apache and mysql services hadn’t restarted. So when I sshed in via terminal, I had to start both of them. And no problems since.

    Now I just need to solve setting up hooks so they automatically re-initialize.

    Thanks.

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