Changing database password for a Wordpress blog
December 2nd, 2008
I wanted to make an online todo-list application using the MySql database on my domain, where my Wordpress blog also resides. For irrelevant reasons I decided to change the database password so that I could access it through a Windows application–but in doing so I buggered up my Wordpress blog because it still used the old password.
After searching for a bit I found out that you only need to change a line in the wp-config.php file, where the database credentials are listed. Update the password, and you’re done!
Or so you should. Instead, I found that my text editor (Windows’s Notepad–what a classic) buggered up the wp-config.php file by removing all the line-breaks. With my limited knowledge of php I put line-breaks where they seemed to fit, and uploaded the file. Checked my website, and… nothing came up! Blank screen, no content at all.
I found this article on semiologic that shows how the wp-config.php file should look, and I discovered I hadn’t put in all the necessary line-breaks, so that some separate commands were on the same line. After fixing this in Notepad++ and uploading again, my blog appeared gloriously once more. Obviously, because otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this post.
My name is Marco Hokke. My blog is about the things that interest me and things I might forget if I would not blog them.
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