Cannot connect to Wordpress database after installing Wordpress on Google Cloud

Question

This morning I installed Wordpress on Compute Engine on Google Cloud. But I am not able to connect to the Wordpress site. I got the login info and when I logged in, there was the Wordpress dashboard. But as soon as I clicked a menu item, it said the database was not connected.

I followed the instructions in a video, but when I pressed SSH to connect to SQL, I did not get the same option as the video instructor had. I don't know if that is what caused the error.

Please help. Thanks

Answer 1

There is not enough information about what the issue is, as per your description it seems the database is not running. I recommend you review this article about most common issues related to establishing a database connection in WordPress.

On the other hand, take a look at the click-to-deploy WordPress solutions from the Google Cloud MarketPlace . There are easy solutions to deploy all necessary WordPress packages (database included) to Compute Engine. Here a guide.