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Hello ol,
"Database error: Unable to connect to the database: Could not connect to MySQL"
This error cause me a lot.
As we all know this error comes when we changed our database password and forget to update configuration.php. But in my case I updated my configration.php file, my site is working fine but in a whole day I got this error 2 to 3 times. I mean when I surf my site then suddenly this error appeared and after 10 to 15 minutes this error goes automatically.

I just want to say you all that this error comes automatically and goes automatically...nobody from our end changed DB password nor any kind of setting in configuration.php. Then why this error appeared again and again.

One more thing I want to tell you is, when this error comes my joomla administration also shows me a same error.

The error is "Database error: Unable to connect to the database: Could not connect to MySQL".

Waiting for your suggestion.

Thanks
&
Regards
Vishal

please check it out whether you assigned the username for the database..

Thnx Santhosh for your reply....
well of course I have assigned username and password for all my 3 data bases.

When the error automatically fixed, are you still at the same page when the error occured?

yes,
I mean if database error comes on home page and if you just refresh that page after some time, so you will land on home page......
after the error fixed, you will land on the same page where you got the error....

regards
Vishal

This is happening to me as well.

When I go to any page in my website I get:
Database Error: Unable to connect to the database:Could not connect to MySQL
But if I click refresh in the browser, the page appears with no further error. This is occuring in IE8, FF3.5,Chrome

This is amazingly odd.

Thanks to all whom may have an idea what in the devil is going on.