# Connecting to Amazon RDS from DevKinsta
**URL:** https://community.kinsta.com/t/connecting-to-amazon-rds-from-devkinsta/2172
**Category:** Application Support
**Created:** [March 27, 2023, 8:52pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/connecting-to-amazon-rds-from-devkinsta/2172 "2023-03-27T20:52:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@alee](https://community.kinsta.com/u/alee)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2023, 8:52pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/connecting-to-amazon-rds-from-devkinsta/2172/1 "2023-03-27T20:52:08Z")
Hi there, new DevKinsta user here. At my company, we develop with Docker regularly, but I’m running into issues trying to use DevKinsta, specifically connecting to external Amazon RDS. The same wp-config settings exist in both our setups. Repro steps:
1. Created a new Wordpress installation on Dev Kinsta.
2. Copied over our current app’s wp-config.php variables.
3. Tried to start the site and see it locally
4. See this error:
`"Access denied for user 'l4g-dev'@'108-226-161-97.lightspeed.sntcca.sbcglobal.net' (using password: YES) in /www/kinsta/public/l4gkinsta2/wp-includes/class-wpdb.php on line 1775"`
5. “l4g-dev” is the correct username, but DevKinsta seems to be adding on this string @‘[108-226-161-97.lightspeed.sntcca.sbcglobal.net](http://108-226-161-97.lightspeed.sntcca.sbcglobal.net)’ I don’t understand where it’s coming from.
Can anyone help shed light on the situation? This thread ([Wp-config.php differences between DevKinsta & MyKinsta - #2 by Agus](https://community.kinsta.com/t/wp-config-php-differences-between-devkinsta-mykinsta/2073/2)) makes me wonder if there’s something going on under the hood.
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### Author:  [@Agus](https://community.kinsta.com/u/Agus)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2023, 3:44am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/connecting-to-amazon-rds-from-devkinsta/2172/2 "2023-03-28T03:44:08Z")
Hello @alee Andrew 👋 Welcome to DevKinsta community!
Based on your reports/results, it looks like your local WordPress site (hosted on your local computer/DevKinsta) was trying to connect to that external database hostname ( `108-226-161-97.lightspeed.sntcca.sbcglobal.net` )
That `108-226-161-97.lightspeed.sntcca.sbcglobal.net` seems to be defined/setup in your wp-config.php file perhaps? 🤔
Could you please open and check the wp-config.php file (that you copied over to your local computer. Usually it’s located inside the " _~/DevKinsta/public/yoursitename_ " subfolder) and locate for the “/\*\* Database hostname \*/” section/line, and normally under that line, you will see something like this:
`define( 'DB_HOST', 'devkinsta_db' );`
please see if the _DB\_HOST_ in that wp-config.php file was set/defined with `108-226-161-97.lightspeed.sntcca.sbcglobal.net` (or something else) ?
If that so, then you may need to change it to: `devkinsta_db` as shown above and save it. After that, please see if you can access the local site?
Cheers,
Agus
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### Author:  [@alee](https://community.kinsta.com/u/alee)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2023, 7:50pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/connecting-to-amazon-rds-from-devkinsta/2172/3 "2023-04-12T19:50:27Z")
> [@Agus](#):
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> devkinsta\_db
Hi @Agus , thanks for the response. I’ve confirmed that there was nothing out of the ordinary in `wp-config.php`. In the end, I had to give up on this.
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### Author:  [@Agus](https://community.kinsta.com/u/Agus)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2023, 2:58am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/connecting-to-amazon-rds-from-devkinsta/2172/4 "2023-04-13T02:58:44Z")
Heya Andrew 🙂
When you checked the wp-config.php file before, did you see this line:
`define( 'DB_HOST', 'devkinsta_db' );`
or was it setup with different hostname (e.g.: that external DB hostname as mentioned previously) ?
I couldn’t say much as it’s on your local computer 🙂 and for normal WordPress setup, the DB host is usually defined in the wp-config.php file .
Cheers,
Agus