Trying to move from Live to Local, error linking to database

[Sergi87]

I'm trying to have a copy of a live website on my local machine. I'm doing this as a test as I'll have to move the website to a new hosting soon.

The problem is that at the end I just get this error : Link to database cannot be established: SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] No such file or directory 

The steps I'm following are these:

• Create a folder and connect MAMP to that folder.
• Create a new database and a user for that db with all the permissions.
• Import the live site DB into this new db.
• Unpack my live site files in the MAMP directory
• Find "settings.inc.php" and change the DB user and password details to match the newly created DB settings.
• Delete everything inside of the smarty cache folder except for the index.php file.

 

Now when I go to the root I get the error that I mentioned. What am I doing wrong?

 

And I should add to the question, will those steps work to move my wesbite from one hosting to another? I'm following the steps in the Prestashop forum.

 

Edited April 26, 2018 by Sergi87 (see edit history)

[NemoPS]

Do files have the right permission?

https://medium.com/vunamhung/mamp-file-permissions-for-a-local-development-environment-c95b3f3ff904

[Sergi87]

18 hours ago, NemoPS said:

Do files have the right permission?

https://medium.com/vunamhung/mamp-file-permissions-for-a-local-development-environment-c95b3f3ff904

 

They do yes, the folder is set to read and write.