Stuck on step 2, "Connecting to MySQL Server... ERROR. Check your login credentials. unable to connect to database as root"

hnccreative wrote on Monday, January 12, 2015:

I understand to leave that blank but I am not sure what to use for password under the “Login Name: openemer”. Should this field already have a password or is this creating a password for the database? If I put the password there I get the error:

“Connecting to MySQL Server… ERROR. Check your login credentials. unable to connect to database as root”

I checked mysql for a password when I tried creating it and it says:

‘Access denied for user ‘root’@‘localhost’ (using password: NO)’

If I don’t add a password I receive the following error:

OpenEMR Setup

ERROR. Please pick a proper ‘Password’.
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