Title: error 2002
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# error 2002

 *  Resolved [saadusmani92](https://wordpress.org/support/users/saadusmani92/)
 * (@saadusmani92)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-2002-2003/)
 * 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/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/fg-joomla-to-wordpress/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Kerfred](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kerfred/)
 * (@kerfred)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-2002-2003/#post-7070696)
 * Please have a look at the FAQ for the answer: [https://wordpress.org/plugins/fg-joomla-to-wordpress/faq/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/fg-joomla-to-wordpress/faq/)
 *  Thread Starter [saadusmani92](https://wordpress.org/support/users/saadusmani92/)
 * (@saadusmani92)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-2002-2003/#post-7070703)
 * hi kerfred i did look at the faqs but couldn’t find anything can you please relate
   specifically?
 *  Plugin Author [Kerfred](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kerfred/)
 * (@kerfred)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-2002-2003/#post-7070704)
 * – 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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 * Last reply from: [Kerfred](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kerfred/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-2002-2003/#post-7070704)
 * Status: resolved