[11:39:25] Hello Mediawiki. I'm trying to install your software on my local Fedora 31 machine. However I'm unable to get past the "php maintenance/install.php" step. [11:40:17] I have setup mariadb, and can login to the prompt with "mysql -u root -p" without issue. [11:40:53] however when I call the "php maintenance/install.php mediawiki admin --dbuser "root" --pass "test"" command. I get the response: [11:41:04] "Cannot access the database: :real_connect(): (HY000/1045): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO). Check the host, username and password and try again." [11:41:44] I'm at a loss why I'm able to connect to the db directly, but not through the php command. [11:54:56] da2ce7: Maybe your permissions are for 127.0.0.1 and not localhost? In that case, try adding --dbserver="127.0.0.1" to the command line [11:56:13] Uhhh, wait. The error message says "using password: NO" [11:56:48] right, you typically need to connect to the socket, not use TCP, to connect without password [11:59:15] da2ce7: are you passing the password to connect to the database? note it's --dbpass not --pass=. Also command arguments are passed as --dbuser="root" --pass="test" (look at the equal sign) [12:00:37] You probably want to use --installdbuser and --installdbpass for the root user, so the installer creates a new database user for the wiki, instead of connecting as root [12:28:15] Vulpix, thankyou. :)