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Good evening!

I had a MyBB several years ago, and at some point my whole website stopped working. I have only just recently gotten around to trying to fix it, which included migrating my website to a new host. My website is live again, but my MyBB is giving me an error message:

Quote:MyBB has experienced an internal SQL error and cannot continue.

SQL Error:
2002 - Connection refused
Query:
[READ] Unable to connect to MySQL server
Please contact the MyBB Group for technical support.

My concern is not about restoring the BB as is, but I would really like to recover the posts that were there - I had been using it to keep some of my creative writing and I kind of want to get those back. So if there's a place in my files that has the posts and I can just copy them out, that would be fine.

Any suggestions? Keep in mind that I haven't used MyBB (or any web design) in several years, so I really have no idea what I'm looking at.

Quote:This occurs when your MySQL server is down or experiencing an issue and MyBB cannot connect to it. You will have to contact your host with this error message.

https://docs.mybb.com/1.8/faq/errors/#mysql-error-2002

you say you moved with the board, did you also adjust the database access data afterwards in inc/config.php

(2023-04-25, 02:10 PM)bv64 Wrote: [ -> ]you say you moved with the board, did you also adjust the database access data afterwards in inc/config.php

No... how do I do that?

check this documentation, which steps you made and which not

https://docs.mybb.com/1.8/faq/moving-to-a-new-web-host/