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Topic: ?
Posted By: Music God
Subject: ?
Date Posted: 27 March 2007 at 1:29am
My forum was working fine for 3 months then I checked it a second ago and I get this message..


Server Error in Forum Application
An error has occured while connecting to the database.
Please contact the forum administrator.

Support Error Code:- err_mySQL_db_connection
File Name:- common.asp

Error details:-
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers
[MySQL][ODBC 3.51 Driver]Can't connect to MySQL server on '71.18.216.43' (10060)



What does this mean?



Replies:
Posted By: iSec
Date Posted: 27 March 2007 at 5:17am

You're posting the wrong section of the forum.

Also, look at the error detail at the bottom, it tells you why. It tells you that the server that hosts your database is down:
Quote [MySQL][ODBC 3.51 Driver]Can't connect to MySQL server on '71.18.216.43' (10060)
which means that you need to contact your hosting provider.


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