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Resolved saadusmani92
(@saadusmani92)

10 years, 6 months ago

Hi can you please telme why iam gettin this error?
[ERROR] Couldn’t connect to the Joomla database. Please check your parameters. And be sure the WordPress server can access the Joomla database.
SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock’ (2)

https://wordpress.org/plugins/fg-joomla-to-wordpress/

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Plugin Author Kerfred
(@kerfred)

10 years, 6 months ago

Please have a look at the FAQ for the answer: https://wordpress.org/plugins/fg-joomla-to-wordpress/faq/

Thread Starter saadusmani92
(@saadusmani92)

10 years, 6 months ago

hi kerfred i did look at the faqs but couldn’t find anything can you please relate specifically?

Plugin Author Kerfred
(@kerfred)

10 years, 6 months ago

– export the Joomla database to a SQL file (with phpMyAdmin for example)
– import this SQL file on the same database as WordPress
– run the migration by using WordPress database credentials (host, user, password, database) instead of the Joomla ones in the plugin settings.

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