Woke up to “Error establishing a database connection” on my site

  • Resolved SwiffEpics

    (@swiffepics)


    5 years, 4 months ago

    I woke up to this message on my site. All my American colleagues are still asleep so I have no idea if they’ve initiated anything that caused this, but it will be my responsibility to fix it anyway.

    When I tried to access the wp-admin it told me to add the line “define(‘WP_ALLOW_REPAIR’, true);” to WP-Config, which I did. Then it gave me an option to try and repair and optimise the database. Then it returned the following error and told me to post it here for more assistance.

    wp_users: Unknown storage engine ‘InnoDB’
    wp_usermeta: Unknown storage engine ‘InnoDB’
    wp_posts: Unknown storage engine ‘InnoDB’
    wp_comments: Unknown storage engine ‘InnoDB’
    wp_links: Unknown storage engine ‘InnoDB’
    wp_options: Unknown storage engine ‘InnoDB’
    wp_postmeta: Unknown storage engine ‘InnoDB’
    wp_terms: Unknown storage engine ‘InnoDB’
    wp_term_taxonomy: Unknown storage engine ‘InnoDB’
    wp_term_relationships: Unknown storage engine ‘InnoDB’
    wp_commentmeta: Unknown storage engine ‘InnoDB’

    Does this mean anything to you lovely people?

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • check your wp-config file
    hostname
    username
    password
    dbname
    is correct or not
    and check your database present on that host(check in db site url updated properly).

    Thread Starter SwiffEpics

    (@swiffepics)

    The issue has now been resolved. I restarted the MYSQL server and updated the MYSQL version. Closing thread.

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