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Hello,

I made a concrete5 site on a Dreamhost account the other day. Was able to get a basic site up and running.

I tried to log-in today to edit the site and none of the different usernames that Dreamhost sent me were working.

So I went in and changed the passwords so that they were all the same(FTP and MySQL), and now my site has crashed.

I get the following error: "Unable to connect to database.
A database error occurred while processing this request." whenever I try to visit my website in any browser (even tried on my phone's 4G internet so as to get a different IP/cookie/etc.).

Any thoughts on how to get my site up again AND how to log-in to edit it?

Thanks!
 
ronyDdeveloper replied on at Permalink Reply
ronyDdeveloper
Have you changed the database username/password? If so, have you altered the site.php under config directory?

Rony
ThemeGuru replied on at Permalink Reply
ThemeGuru
Sent you a PM :-)
johnpaulb replied on at Permalink Reply
johnpaulb
Hello rcmcavinue,

If you are still having problems, Step 4 of this article I did explains how to update your site.php file:
http://www.webhostinghub.com/help/learn/concrete5/get-started/move-...

Also, here is a link to Dreamhost's guide on how to "Connect to your MySQL database using third-party programs:"
http://wiki.dreamhost.com/MySQL#Connect_to_your_MySQL_database_usin...

I hope this helps,
John-Paul

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