Thanks @E-werd. It's on my local machine. So it's more of a test site.
You'll want to go into the MySQL console and create a database and a new user that throat will use to access it. You need to know the root login for MySQL/MariaDB, once you do you can use these commands to create the database and user. Change 'Pass1234' with whatever password you'd like, I'd suggest something randomly generated. DO NOT LOSE THIS.
Since it's on my local machine/test site, should I leave the contents of the file as is instead of going through with the steps you have mentioned below?
mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE throat;
CREATE USER 'throat'@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'Pass1234';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON throat.* TO 'throat'@localhost;
exit
should I leave the contents of the file as is instead of going through with the steps you have mentioned below?
Both. You shouldn't be changing the contents of that file anyway.
Thank you so much @E-werd.
So, to conclude.
I won't touch the said file (debian.cnf)
Run the script below as you have mentioned.
mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE throat;
CREATE USER 'throat'@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'Pass1234';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON throat.* TO 'throat'@localhost;
exit
One last question: Is the mysql password the same as the root password? It's asking me for a password when I run mysql -u root -p. Sorry if you found the question stupid. I'm really dumb in this.
The idea of accessing this file was to use the username and password within it for the throat database connection. The guide was intended more as a way to get you up and running with a development environment so I wouldn't use this for a production site. This goes double now that you've showed us this information.
You'll want to go into the MySQL console and create a database and a new user that throat will use to access it. You need to know the root login for MySQL/MariaDB, once you do you can use these commands to create the database and user. Change 'Pass1234' with whatever password you'd like, I'd suggest something randomly generated. DO NOT LOSE THIS.