Error establishing a database connection

[janoist1]

I'm getting Error establishing a database connection when installing WP.

The following prints "Connected" when putting intowp-config.php:

$mysqli_connection = mysqli_connect(
  $_dbsettings['host'],
  $_dbsettings['user'],
  $_dbsettings['pass'],
  trim( $_dbsettings['path'], '/' ),
  $_dbsettings['port']
);

if ($mysqli_connection->connect_error) {
   echo "Not connected, error: " . $mysqli_connection->connect_error;
}
else {
   echo "Connected.";
}

What's going on?

[nickmerwin]

This is due to the RDS certificate change.

From jawsdb.com:

You'll need to swap out this file in your repo support/mysql-certs/rds-combined-ca-bundle.pem with this new one from AWS:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/rds-downloads/rds-combined-ca-bundle.pem

and redeploy.

[nickmerwin]

Pull Request opened: https://github.com/xyu/heroku-wp/pull/171

[janoist1]

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[DSaxon]

thanks a million I overlooked the update

[DSaxon]

there are a few pulls that i think is pending. Is anyone on this thread able to help keep the repo updated?

[lilpkstud]

Switch WP_DB_SSL to OFF from Heroku's Settings Tab -> Config Vars