This is mostly because of character set defined in your mysql database is not proper for your language. This is usually UTF-8 Unicode, and it is default.

Fix:

Changing the charecter set can be done via mysql command line.  Just login to your server via SSH and bring your mysql command line on with following command.

 mysql -h   -D   -u   -p

Now it will ask you password before giving access to mysql prompt.

ALTER DATABASE wowebmaster DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_turkish_ci \g

When you get access to mysql command line, type the above mysql command, it will change the character set of wowebmaster database to utf8_turkish_ci . That’s it. Replace the database name and the character set for your own modifications.

Update: Changing Table Character Set

If you are looking for changing your table’s character set, you can use the following command;

ALTER TABLE table_name DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_turkish_ci \g

Mysql Error: Too many connections

This is annoying because, it only appears in high volume traffic hours. Even if you don’t see this error, your users might come across with this. Getting this error may even differ from time to time.

Here is the solution:

On apache’s “my.cnf” configuration file, you must have had something like this:

[mysqld]
port = 3306
datadir=/var/lib/mysql
socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
skip-locking
set-variable = max_connections=100
set-variable = key_buffer=16M
set-variable = myisam_sort_buffer_size=64M
set-variable = join_buffer=1M
set-variable = record_buffer=1M
set-variable = sort_buffer=2M
set-variable = table_cache=1024
set-variable = thread_cache_size=256
set-variable = wait_timeout=9600
set-variable = connect_timeout=10
set-variable = max_allowed_packet=16M
set-variable = max_connect_errors=10


Change max_connections to something higher. If you don’t have that line on your my.cnf file, your server must have used max_connections=100 by default. So add that line under [mysqld] with a higher value to overcome this problem.

Now you shouldn’t have a too many connections problem. Enjoy.