theagorian

Thanks. I sent a support email to my host. I’ll keep you posted if I need further help.

Much appreciated!

Thanks a lot! It’s not fixed. I’m not sure if I made things worse but I definitely did something different (excuse me for my ignorance; I’m better at front-end and CSS stuff, so editing .php files is new to me).

This is what I did and what happened:

Using the instructions on the WordPress Help page you linked to, I opened the file <wp-config-sample.php> using TextEdit. I followed the instructions on the Help page and did the following things: I edited the database information which I got from cPanel via my web host (which I have every reason to believe I did correctly but it’s entirely plausible that I didn’t), then I added the security keys using the random generator recommended by that WordPress help page. Lastly, I added in the WP_SITEURL and WP_HOME constants exactly as you worded them (I’m not sure if the location of these constants in the .php file makes a difference, but just in case, I added them underneath the security keys). The last thing I did was I saved the .php file and then renamed it to <wp-config.php>.

Thinking I did everything correctly, I tried to login again to the wp-admin for my wp.org website and I get an otherwise blank page with the following text displayed on my web browser: “Error establishing a database connection” – which I didn’t get before.

Any help for what I should do now? I was really hoping to get this website launched by the end of this weekend because I spent all summer building it, and now I’m worried it’s completely disappeared, haha.