{"id":5728,"date":"2017-03-29T12:17:36","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T12:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/?p=5728"},"modified":"2021-02-01T07:21:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T07:21:20","slug":"enabling-cagefs-truned-not-connect-database-error-cpanel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/enabling-cagefs-truned-not-connect-database-error-cpanel\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cCould not connect to the database\u201d error on CPanel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Recently we have setup new Linux server with WHM installed on it and we have enabled the cageFS on server which result in database connectivity issue.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"space1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"notice-error-sh\">\n<pre>\u201cCould not connect to the database\u201d<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"space1\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Clients having issue while connecting database using &#8220;localhost&#8221; as an hostname into their database configuration files. If you are also facing this kind of problem, so here is the solution:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We need to be very careful while configuring\/enabling <a href=\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/how-to-install-cagefs-on-cpanel\/\">CageFS <\/a>on the dedicated Linux as it can cause many errors if its not configured properly.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> This is mostly happen due to the <a href=\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/performance-tuning-script-mysql-mysql-tuner\/\">MySQL<\/a> directory is not mounted in <a href=\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/enable-cagefs-for-cpanel-users\/\">CageFS<\/a>, The configuration file for the same is as below :<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"space1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"command-sh\">\n<pre># \/etc\/cagefs\/cagefs.mp<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"space1\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Please login to your server as a root and be careful while editing. You need to add the <strong>\u201c\/var\/lib\/mysql\u201d<\/strong> under the file <strong>\/etc\/cagefs\/cagefs.mp<\/strong> and remount the users:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"space1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"command-sh\">\n<pre># cagefsctl \u2013remount-all<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"space1\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">After doing this you will find all the websites with database will start working again .<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We hope this article helped you to Fix &#8220;Could not connect to database error&#8221; on websites. Please check and give your opinion below if you experience any issues or to discuss your ideas and experiences.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently we have setup new Linux server with WHM installed on it and we have enabled the cageFS on server which result in database connectivity issue. 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