Unable to Connect to Database

[andyschlei]

Sometime in the last couple of weeks, my Coppermine gallery stopped working.  I get the following error message, which unfortunately doesn't help much:

Coppermine critical error:
Unable to connect to database !

MySQLi said: :

I haven't changed anything in months, so I am at a loss to know what happened.  I don't get anything in the website error logs.

Any and all help would be greatly appreciated!

[andyschlei]

One other important fact:  I can connect to the database in PHPMyAdmin without any problem.

[andyschlei]

I've tried upgrading and when I try to run the update.php script I get the same error.

I tried doing a clean install on the website and it works fine.

[andyschlei]

OK, the problem is fixed.

Believe it or not, all I did was to change the password on the database to the one from the config.inc.php file.  I have no idea how the password got mucked up on the backend, but it happened to two galleries on my site.

Gremlins or the mysterious hacker who just changes your MySQL users passwords.

[phill104]

Glad you got it fixed.