Trouble installing with WAMP

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Question: Trouble installing with WAMP

Hello, I am having a lot of trouble installing silverstripe. I am using WAMP.

I’m running the composer installation inside of the www folder, and adding the .env file.

But when I run vendor/bin/sake dev/build I am getting:

// error-log.ERROR: Uncaught Exception SilverStripe\ORM\Connect\DatabaseException: "Couldn't connect to MySQL database | Access denied for user '<user>'@'localhost' (using password: YES)" at C:\wamp64\www\my-project\vendor\silverstripe\framework\src\ORM\Connect\DBConnector.php line 64 {"exception":"[object] (SilverStripe\\ORM\\Connect\\DatabaseException(code: 0): Couldn't connect to MySQL database | Access denied for user '<user>'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

I am also not seeing the install screen in the browser. I am just getting

Warning: mysqli::real_connect(): The server requested authentication method unknown to the client [sha256_password] in C:\wamp64\www\my-project\vendor\silverstripe\framework\src\ORM\Connect\MySQLiConnector.php on line  *113*

Detailed advice is appreciated since I’m obviously very confused.

Thanks!

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The error message suggests that the username and password for the database are wrong, or that the user doesn’t have sufficient permissions set up to access the database.

I’m not a WAMP user, so I can’t give detailed advice about that bit, but I’m sure Google has the answer. If you get a user set up which has the right access to the database, and put those credentials in your .env file, it should work.

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Can we maybe see your .env file to see if there are any weird things in there. Obviously leave password blank :slight_smile: