Can't connect to database, please verify credentials/configuration in settings.php

Hi All,

I have been running emoncms on a remote server for about 12 months. All of the data has been logging fine, this week I have been getting the following error when trying to login to emoncms running on the server:

“Can’t connect to database, please verify credentials/configuration in settings.php
Error message: Your password has expired. To log in you must change it using a client that supports expired passwords.”

Has anyone seen this before?

Many thanks

Carl

Looks like the password for your MySQL database is set to expire passwords after 12 months? You will have to access the MySQL database on your server to recreate a new password then edit settings.php to update to the new password

This may be of some help.

You’ll need the MySQL root password to use this method.

How did you install this? What is the base OS?