Thread:Project:Support desk/Cannot connect database server/reply

Hi Kristin,

MediaWiki 1.24 is compatible with PHP 5.3 and with 5.4, see Compatibility. At least for the MediaWiki software itself, there is nothing to upgrade.

However, you have not told us where exactly you get this error message, so I am not exactly sure what is happening. Anyway, a "Cannot connect database server" error usually means that the database server is not available currently. Most likely the MySQL server is just not running. If you are on a shared host, meaning if FastWebHost offers you the server, then you won't be able to fix that yourself. This is something they have to fix.

Would be interesting to know, if you can connect to the database server differently, e.g. using something like PHPMyAdmin (which FastWebHost might have to give you access to the DB).