Getting this error, mysqldump: Got error: 2002: Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/tmp/mysql.sock’ (2) when trying to connect

WP CLI for DB Export, Import not working

afragen March 31, 2020, 3:26pm 3

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