Sanity Check for Restoring WordPress Database from MySQL Workbench Import

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I am teaching myself to manually restore a WordPress Database using MySQL Workstation. This Database is coming from a Production instance in AWS EC2 (Amazon Linux with Maria DB) to a localhost (which is already up and running).

I can successfully export that database and run it locally, but when I run it in a browser I get “Error Establishing Database Connection”.

Using the wp-config.php file, I changed the entries DB\_NAME, DB\_USER and DB\_PASSWORD

*What am I missing for a manual restore?*

Ultimately I’d like to find a system that is both a backup & allows me to run local instances as a sort of “source control”.

Thanks in advance for the sanity check!

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