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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nStep 2:<\/strong> In your GetHost Control Panel, look for the Web Files<\/strong> section and open the File Manager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Step 3:<\/strong> Navigate to your public_html folder, then locate the folder where your WordPress site is installed. In this case, it\u2019s installed in a root folder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Once you\u2019re in the folder\/directory in which WordPress is installed, you should see the listing of files that go along with a WordPress installation, like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Step 4:<\/strong> Now, open the file \u00a0wp-config.php\u00a0in the File Manager. To do this, just click on the file name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Step 5:<\/strong> After clicking, a new window will open where you will see a lot of text. This is the configuration file for your WordPress site, so be sure not to make any changes. If you read through the file, look for this section:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Below it, you will see the name of the database being used for your WordPress installation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n And that\u2019s how you discover the name of the database running your WordPress site<\/p>\n\n\n\n We hope you find this article useful. Discover more about GetHost \u2013 the best Hosting Solutions for personal and small business websites!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Depending on the method you use when you install WordPress, you may or may not have set a custom database name. And sometimes, particularly when working with developers, you\u2019ll need to locate the name of your database. Not to worry, we\u2019ll cover how to do that in this Article. Step 1:\u00a0Log in to your GetHost […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[3],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-48","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-how-to"],"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":261,"total_views":0,"reactions":{"happy":0,"normal":0,"sad":0},"author_info":{"name":"nashe","author_nicename":"nashe","author_url":"https:\/\/gethost.co.zw\/kb\/author\/nashe\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"How To","term_url":"https:\/\/gethost.co.zw\/kb\/topic\/how-to\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gethost.co.zw\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gethost.co.zw\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gethost.co.zw\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gethost.co.zw\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gethost.co.zw\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gethost.co.zw\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":663,"href":"https:\/\/gethost.co.zw\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/48\/revisions\/663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gethost.co.zw\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gethost.co.zw\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gethost.co.zw\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/gethost-kb.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-3-1024x273.png\")
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