phpMyAdmin – Error

#2002 – The server is not responding (or the local MySQL server’s socket is not correctly configured)

Solution :-

1. First check whether mysql is working in the server or not.

2, Check whether there is a symbolic link from mysql.sock to /tmp. If not, create a symlink between /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock and /tmp/mysql.sock.
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ln -s /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock /tmp/mysql.sock
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3. If this doesn’t fix the issue check the file: /usr/local/cpanel/base/3rdparty/phpMyAdmin/config.inc.php and make sure the entries are like this:
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$cfg[‘Servers’][$i][‘socket’] = ‘/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock’;
$cfg[‘Servers’][$i][‘connect_type’] = ‘socket’;
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