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So, a long story made short: 

I had a wiki, I have the SQL. I tried to set it up on localhost using MAMP. Finally got rebuildall to do something, after I was able to get update.php to work. 

I got the following: 

[a5cbdb0fd715fc3ef188c065] [no req]   Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBConnectionError from line 800 of /Users/carter/Sites/id8tionist/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/database/Database.php: Cannot access the database: No such file or directory (localhost)

Backtrace:

#0 /Users/carter/Sites/id8tionist/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/loadbalancer/LoadBalancer.php(1028): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->reportConnectionError(string)

#1 /Users/carter/Sites/id8tionist/mediawiki/includes/libs/rdbms/loadbalancer/LoadBalancer.php(670): Wikimedia\Rdbms\LoadBalancer->reportConnectionError()

#2 /Users/carter/Sites/id8tionist/mediawiki/includes/GlobalFunctions.php(2858): Wikimedia\Rdbms\LoadBalancer->getConnection(integer, array, boolean)

#3 /Users/carter/Sites/id8tionist/mediawiki/maintenance/Maintenance.php(1253): wfGetDB(integer, array, boolean)

#4 /Users/carter/Sites/id8tionist/mediawiki/maintenance/rebuildall.php(44): Maintenance->getDB(integer)

#5 /Users/carter/Sites/id8tionist/mediawiki/maintenance/doMaintenance.php(92): RebuildAll->execute()

#6 /Users/carter/Sites/id8tionist/mediawiki/maintenance/rebuildall.php(67): require_once(string)

#7 {main}

See $wgDBserver. Note that if using "localhost", MySQL may interpret it connects through a socket, with a default location that may not exist on your installation. If your MYSQL is listening on a TCP port, use 127.0.0.1 instead