It is important to ensure that your website has the right MySQL database connection information set in your website’s code, otherwise your website will not be able to create a successful database connection.

Configuration Settings

• Host name = localhost (literally put localhost)
• Database name = (cpanelUsername_databaseName)
• Database username = (cpanelUsername_databaseUsername)
• Database password = (the password you picked)

Code example

With the example account settings of:

• cPanel username = paul1666
• Database name = wrdp1
• Database username = pauluser
• Database user password = 4EtufEch

These settings would translate into the following code on your website.

// ** MySQL Settings ** //

/** The name of the database */
define('DB_NAME', 'paul1666_wrdp1');

/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', 'paul1666_pauluser');

/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', '4EtufEch');

/** MySQL hostname */
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');