Can anyone help? My site has gone!

[throwing a paddy]

I have been happily messing about with all sorts of things today, trying to get my site looking nice, then to my horror, when I went to preview it, I got nothing but this message displayed:

 

Warning: mysql_pconnect(): Access denied for user: 'XXXXX_osc2@localhost' (Using password: YES) in /home/XXXXX/public_html/cart/includes/functions/database.php on line 17

Unable to connect to database server!

 

I seem to have done so much today that I cannot honestly remember what I have changed to make this message appear...I believe it may have been something to do with SSL, but like a dummy I don't have backups of the file(s) I changed, so I'm really stuck on what to do next apart from uninstall the thing and start all over again.

 

Any suggestions?

[241]

try setting persistent connections to false in the configure.php files

define('USE_PCONNECT', 'false');

also check your database information whilst there.

[throwing a paddy]

Thanks Steve....I had persistant connections set to true, but I still get the same error now that I have changed it to false. Another thing I have noticed in the admin/includes/configure file is that there is a password entered as follows:

 

define('DB_SERVER_PASSWORD', 'XXXXXXXXX'

 

That is a password that I have never seen before, and one that I would certainly never use...is this a default password, as far as I am aware I don't have a password to this area?

 

Even more puzzled!

[perpetual-burn]

well if the password is not urs and ur getting a access denied error.. Im tihnking u should put the right password in :P I dunno, I'm really no expert but it would only logically make sense.

[AlanR]

Thanks Steve....I had persistant connections set to true, but I still get the same error now that I have changed it to false. Another thing I have noticed in the admin/includes/configure file is that there is a password entered as follows:

 

define('DB_SERVER_PASSWORD', 'XXXXXXXXX'

 

That is a password that I have never seen before, and one that I would certainly never use...is this a default password, as far as I am aware I don't have a password to this area?

 

Even more puzzled!

Methinks you changed it so as to post the config files here then uploaded the bogus file by mistake.