Jul
28
Error establishing a database connection: Wordpress
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This issue is mostly well documented elsewhere on the internet, but I recently found an unusual cause of this problem which I felt was worth documenting.
The following list should hopefully help you to isolate this problem, but if I’ve missed anything please let me know via comments:
Firstly check you have updated the DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD and [...]
May
19
Installing Wordpress on Ubuntu 7.10
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The idea of this blog is to detail solutions to anything technical I’ve tried that hasn’t been straightforward. What better way to start than with instructions on installing wordpress:
Instructions for Ubuntu 7.10 using bash, but should be similar for any *nix install.
Assuming the following:
LAMP server already installed,
Installation is for a single blog,
The blog should be [...]