

Luckily, it’s easy to solve the issue by simply creating a new server configuration file. This might happen after you’ve made changes to the file. The second common cause is corrupt or incorrect settings in the. There are two possibilities in this case: either the website owner edited the settings so that you couldn’t access the resources, or they didn’t set the correct permissions.

You have to locate the file in a backups folder located in the root of the hosting account. If you plan on transferring the WordPress database to another host, it will be a little more involved. Then, again, for no reason at all, wait several hours for it to do its thing. Just click ‘actions’ -> ‘Restore’ and then select the backup you just created. Once that’s ready, you use the same method to restore the database. And for no reason at all, this will take several hours. A backup of the whole database with all the correct formatting and everything will be created. When you are viewing your list of all your databases in your hosting control panel, next to the database you want to backup, you can click ‘actions’ -> ‘Back Up’. This is actually a legitimate way to do this, but it has one huge drawback: time. Using Godaddy’d built-in database backup and restore system. Now you may have tried a couple other things in the past that didn’t work so well. Which would be fine if you were importing into a blank database, but you aren’t usually! You are importing into an existing WordPress database.īut over the years I have learned methods that work every time for backing up and restoring databases. It would seem that when you export the database, it puts commands in there that make it create new tables and the database itself when you import it. I’m not sure the technical details of these errors or their causes. Or possibly something like “#1050 – Table ‘wp_commentmeta’ already exists” Or even that the database already exists.

#1044 - Access denied for user to database 'information_schema' CREATE DATABASE information_schema DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci
