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• Started 2 years ago by DavyB
• Latest reply from DavyB
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• Could not establish a database connection
• integration
• new hosting

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getting bbpress working after hosting change.

1. • 
   • DavyB
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   • Posted 2 years ago #

   I recently moved my hosting from US west hosting to European hosting. I.E. Next door rather than 1/3 way round planet on the far side of North America. I copied backups of the old databases to the new hosting.
   Now I cannot get bbpress running now the old dns and hosting have been switched off.
   I get error message "ERROR: Could not establish a database connection" I had wp and bb integrated and syncing. wp is working fine. I can use phpMyAdmin to read the database. BBPress will setup fine with a new database but its a bit of a pain to setup all the forums and synced topics and I'd lose the topics that were only in the bbpress forums.

   Any help and advice welcomed.
2. • 
   • Olaf
   • Member

   • Posted 2 years ago #

   Moving to a new hosting company will not say that the database connection is the same.
   Check the documentation from the new provider how-to connect to your database from PHP
3. • 
   • DavyB
   • Member

   • Posted 2 years ago #

   Actually its same hosting company, EU datacenter rather than US west datacenter. I was being a little vague as to the hosting company, 5 hops on a tracert rather than 18+, much more responsive.

   I have got it to connect to the db by editing the bb_meta table, values for user_bbdb_name, user_bbdb_user, user_bbdb_host and user_bbdb_password, its now working to some extent, but user identifiers dont seem to be mapping correctly, so I cannot access as a logged in user on the bbpress side.

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