I am modifying the functionality of a wordpress site for a job. I mirrored the site by FTP on my host to work on it. My client provided credentials for the MySQL database but they seem to be incorrect.

Host Name: dwb1123413473505.db.8265617.hostedresource.com

I first checked wp-config.php and it is the same there. hostedresource.com looks like a placeholder, and it doesn't resolve as a valid domain. However, the clients site (not my mirror), is working fine. Since the host name appears to be invalid, there must be some other file with the correct host name and other login info.

Can someone tell me where else the database host name might be stored?

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Might your hosting company have some special local DNS rules that enable it to resolve this hostname? I am not an expert but might it be possible do a PHP system() call to ping [db_hostname] when on the original host? – djb Jan 18 at 10:43
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