Don’t lose your visitors when your database is unavailable
July 17, 2017
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When your WordPress blog has trouble connecting with the database, it returns a nice “Error Establishing a database connection”.
Instead of losing visitors, db-error.php might be the useful solution.
You should create and place it in the wp-content folder. After that paste this short code in it.
[sourcecode language=”php”]<?php
// db-error.php
$host=$_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’];
$uri=urlencode($_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’]);
header("Location: http://google.com/search?q=cache:$host$uri");
exit();
?>
[/sourcecode]
the visitor is automatically redirected to the Google cache of the requested page. This avoids losing a visitor.
