When trying to back up a site I’ve had for nearly a year…I that in the control panel “MySQL” where I’ve done many a back up of my database, the MySQL says I have no database. Interestingly enough, the website is working fine. I’ve been able to add and remove text and images and save and the web site works fine.
As a test , I created a new website with WordPress (new account inside my infinity free acct.). Installed WordPress…same problem. It functions not the MySQL admin place in control panel says there’s no database.
I’ve tried to access the data bases from different browsers and different hardware. Same problem.
Sometimes, the database permissions get a bit wonky and cause the databases to not appear in the control panel. Fortunately, this is easy to fix.
First, find the name of the database that WordPress is using. You can do that by finding your website in the file manager and then checking the wp-config.php file. There should be a setting DB_NAME that looks like if0_12345678_wp123.
Then, go to the MySQL Databases section in the client area or control panel, and verify that the database does not show up there. If it doesn’t, you can make it appear by creating a database with the same name. Doing so will NOT recreate the database, it will just add the required parameters so the control panel can list the databases.