# Error establishing a database connection - Bedrock Wordpress on host server

**URL:** https://discourse.roots.io/t/error-establishing-a-database-connection-bedrock-wordpress-on-host-server/20726
**Category:** bedrock
**Tags:** deploys
**Created:** 2021-05-05T10:15:11Z
**Posts:** 8
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## Post 6 by @folbert — 2021-05-06T09:49:24Z

I absolutely agree with alwaysblank that Composer and an automatic deploy process is the way to go. I personally use [Deployer](https://deployer.org) for which I have shared [my setup for here](https://discourse.roots.io/t/correct-way-to-deploy-with-capistrano-bedrock-and-sage/17966/4). There’s also [Trellis](https://roots.io/trellis/) which I am not using (because of the way the company where I work do things) but I think a lot of people here would recommend it :slight_smile:

But I can also see the need for a quick fix and I think there are a cpl of ways to do it (test at your own risk):

If you are able to run composer on the server, you could update versions in composer.json and then run `composer update` there. If you have a local setup you should first do the updates there using Composer and make sure everything works and then you can upload composer\*\*.lock\*\* to the server and run `composer install`. Maybe also add some or all of the flags `--verbose --prefer-dist --no-progress --no-interaction --no-dev --optimize-autoloader --no-suggest`.

If using Composer is not an option, but you still want to keep anyone from updating using the admin area, you can go ahead and manually add/replace plugins in web/app/plugins and core in web/wp.

If you also/instead want to allow updates/installs from the admin area: in config/environments/production.php (and staging.php if you are using a staging environment), set `DISALLOW_FILE_MODS` to `true`. I do believe that this also enables the file editor and other maybe-not-so-good-but-default-in-wordpress stuff in the admin area.

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If you wont be using Composer, and later on decide to start using it, you need to make sure to match the list in composer.json with the installed plugins and versions.

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