Thread:Project:Support desk/even with correct database credential I get "Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties"/reply (3)

Florian, don't you think that the error message is misleading, if not even wrong? When it says that the server could not be contacted, then this sounds like "The server was not online/was not reachable at all." However, the second part of the message, "Unknown database xxx", implies that MediaWiki knows that inside the server the database did not exist. This again means that the server could be contacted (otherwise you wouldn't be able to know that the DB did not exist) and that it responded with "DB does not exist". So in fact MediaWiki could contact the server.

This error message should be improved!