Unable To Connect- Error Establishing A Database Connection

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Hi! Fairly new to local and I am having trouble connecting to my site. When I log into my flywheel dashboard and click the “site-name.flywheel.com” I can access it, but when I open it from local (site-name.local) I get “Error establishing a DB connection”

I’ve tried support which wasn’t really helpful, and I’ve even tried changing the .local domain to .flywheel.com and nothing has worked.

I just worked on it Friday and pushed it to flywheel, and when I came back today I’m getting this error message. I haven’t changed anything on my account or the site so I’m not really sure what to do from here. Any advice? Thank you!

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Hey @sarahhamon,

I’m using Local for the first time too and came across this error.

First things to try are making sure the site is “running”

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See in this screenshot it says “start site”. click that if it isn’t running.

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This is what it looks like when it’s running. With mine I had to wait a short time after starting it for the mysql server that Local uses to be running. Once I waited patiently it all worked for me.

Hopefully this is helpful :slight_smile:

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Thanks! My site was running when this issue occurred until I finally just shut the whole thing down.

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I have just started getting this issue on a new site I have set up in Local. Here’s an excerpt from the log:

Feb 20, 2019, 8:51 PM GMT+9:30 - info: [main/docker-machine] Starting "local-by-flywheel"...
Feb 20, 2019, 8:51 PM GMT+9:30 - info: [main/docker-machine] (local-by-flywheel) Check network to re-create if needed...
Feb 20, 2019, 8:51 PM GMT+9:30 - info: [main/docker-machine] (local-by-flywheel) Waiting for an IP...
Feb 20, 2019, 8:52 PM GMT+9:30 - info: [main/docker-machine] Machine "local-by-flywheel" was started.
Feb 20, 2019, 8:52 PM GMT+9:30 - info: [main/docker-machine] Waiting for SSH to be available...
Feb 20, 2019, 8:52 PM GMT+9:30 - info: [main/docker-machine] Detecting the provisioner...
Feb 20, 2019, 8:52 PM GMT+9:30 - info: [main/docker-machine] Started machines may have new IP addresses. You may need to re-run the `docker-machine env` command.
Feb 20, 2019, 8:52 PM GMT+9:30 - info: [main/set-docker-env] Getting Docker Machine env.
Feb 20, 2019, 8:52 PM GMT+9:30 - info: [main/set-docker-env] Received Docker Machine env. export DOCKER_TLS_VERIFY="1"
export DOCKER_HOST="tcp://192.168.75.100:2376"
export DOCKER_CERT_PATH="/Users/ericdaams/.docker/machine/machines/local-by-flywheel"
export DOCKER_MACHINE_NAME="local-by-flywheel"
# Run this command to configure your shell: 
# eval $("/Applications/Local by Flywheel.app/Contents/Resources/extraResources/virtual-machine/vendor/docker/osx/docker-machine" env --shell bash local-by-flywheel)

Feb 20, 2019, 8:52 PM GMT+9:30 - info: [main/docker-machine] checking IP
Feb 20, 2019, 8:52 PM GMT+9:30 - info: [main/docker-machine] checked IP 192.168.75.100

Feb 20, 2019, 8:52 PM GMT+9:30 - info: [main/docker-machine-fdv] NFS Mount Status 
{ mountedPoints: [ '/Users', '/Volumes' ],
  mountPoints: [ '/Users', '/Volumes' ] }
Feb 20, 2019, 8:52 PM GMT+9:30 - info: [main/docker-machine-fdv] unfsd already running
Feb 20, 2019, 8:52 PM GMT+9:30 - info: [EnvironmentCustom] Empty /etc/mysql
Feb 20, 2019, 8:52 PM GMT+9:30 - info: [main/docker-router] getRouterContainers()
Feb 20, 2019, 8:52 PM GMT+9:30 - info: [main/docker-router] teardown()
Feb 20, 2019, 8:52 PM GMT+9:30 - info: [main/docker-router] Removing router container c98ed0aa427b642fb3779a6674c1ed55fd33e8cda10fcd24710539ab3d1eb2c3
Feb 20, 2019, 8:52 PM GMT+9:30 - info: [main/docker-router] updateProxyManager()
Feb 20, 2019, 8:52 PM GMT+9:30 - info: [main/docker-router] runContainer()
Feb 20, 2019, 8:52 PM GMT+9:30 - info: [main/docker-network-manager] removeExistingNetworks
Feb 20, 2019, 8:52 PM GMT+9:30 - info: [main/docker-network-manager] createNetwork
Feb 20, 2019, 8:52 PM GMT+9:30 - info: [EnvironmentCustom] Copying MySQL config to container prior to starting.
Feb 20, 2019, 8:52 PM GMT+9:30 - info: [main/docker-router] reconnectNetwork()
Feb 20, 2019, 8:52 PM GMT+9:30 - info: [main/waitForFile] Waiting for  /conf/php/7.0.3/etc/php-fpm.conf c44bc02a1dcc15a3ed7a2c58f3186a6a33190f254e5fde69cabb37c2807307f6
Feb 20, 2019, 8:52 PM GMT+9:30 - info: [main/waitForFile] /conf/php/7.0.3/etc/php-fpm.conf exists
Feb 20, 2019, 8:52 PM GMT+9:30 - info: [EnvironmentCustom]  Starting php-fpm  done
Feb 20, 2019, 8:52 PM GMT+9:30 - warn: [main/waitForMySQL] waitForMySQL Response: 
{ stdout: '', stderr: '' }
Feb 20, 2019, 8:52 PM GMT+9:30 - warn: [main/waitForMySQL] waitForMySQL Response: 
{ stdout: '', stderr: '' }
Feb 20, 2019, 8:52 PM GMT+9:30 - warn: [main/waitForMySQL] waitForMySQL Response: 
{ stdout: '', stderr: '' }
Feb 20, 2019, 8:52 PM GMT+9:30 - warn: [main/SiteModel] wpInstalled not returning "installed" 
{ message: '',
  stack:
   'Error\n    at /Applications/Local by Flywheel.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/main/actions-sites/wait-for-mysql.js:1:2853\n    at Generator.next (<anonymous>)\n    at _0x5bab70 (/Applications/Local by Flywheel.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/main/actions-sites/wait-for-mysql.js:1:1645)\n    at /Applications/Local by Flywheel.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/main/actions-sites/wait-for-mysql.js:1:1904\n    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:68:7)' }