How to find database details of my WordPress site in cPanel?

Login to your cPanel account and search for the File Manager to open, it happens to be under ‘Files’ section.

You will be re-directed on to a new page in to the Home Directory of your Account, you need to open public_html directory from the left hand side navigation menu as shown below.

Search for the wp-config.php file, which normally resides in the central area of your public_html folder. Right click on wp-config.php file and select Edit option.

It is important to notice that you need to authenticate before accessing the file, for which, you need to click Edit when a popup appears on the window.

You will be redirected to a new tab appears on your browser, and you can see a lot of coding lines. You need to find out something related to the database name, database password, etc.

Let me show you an example:

You can easily find all the Database details here i.e the Database Name, Username and password.

I hope you can easily acquire your Database details now.

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