I then restored my site files and SQL database files using the most recent backup. I logged into it and verified my account to get it up and running and then navigated to my backups. ![]() So I went into an empty WordPress dashboard and then installed the UpdraftPlus plugin. Luckily (and as previously mentioned) I had some remote storage (important) UpdraftPlus backups. So I had to do a fresh install of WordPress, meaning I lost all my site info. sql file worked it might have restored the site, but I’ll never know-unless the login error occurs again and I will try this method again just for reference. sql file has errored on export (it was only 1K). I got an error again and realised that my. Then I started Xampp and tried to login to WordPress. Then I pasted over the aforementioned files and folder into their correct locations overwriting the defaults. I uninstalled Xampp and installed what happened to be an updated version. I then went into phpmyadmin and exported my WordPress. However I took a different approach due to the fact that I was a bit out of my depth and lost a bit of patience with it all.įirst I decided to re-install Xampp, so I first copied my WordPress folder inside htdocs, and I copied the and php.ini files which had my configurations in. I’m not following your method much (newbie), but it may have worked. This topic was modified 2 years, 4 months ago by Steven Stern (sterndata). I am using Xampp on windows with a Bitnami WordPress installation.Īny suggestions would be most appreciated. Incidently, I have set up some Updraftplus backups on my offline site, but I’m unsure if as a last resort, I’d need to reinstall the whole of WordPress again (keeping reference to all my config files information for easy duplication into the fresh install)? I tried copying fresh wordpress files over the top of the old ones -(keeping the old wp-content folder and the wp-config.php file).īecause my site is offline only at the moment as I’m still creating it, I don’t think I can do the recommended wordpress database repair process – if that would help. I also changed ‘pma user’ login in phpmyadmin to match the password in. ![]() I read somewhere that some people have changed controluser to ‘root’? But I tried that and still no luck. I have also allowed all login permissions for all the apparent users in phpmyadmin. I logged into phpmyadmin (this is up-to-date)- and found that there were somehow some database errors which i appear to have fixed by repairing the mysql db table. I have tried disabling of the plugins and themes in wp-content folder, and that didn’t work. No settings had been changed since the previous day’s log on when it worked (as far as I know, I didn’t change anything in the or wp-config.php). It gives me the message ‘Error establishing a database connection’. I suddenly and for no apparent reason found that I could not log into the wordpress dashboard. ![]() My site is offline at the moment and not live or hosted anywhere just yet.
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