CakePHP Database connection “Mysql” is missing, or could not be created

Question

There have been several other posts about this, but none of the answers seemed to work for me.

When I navigate to the CakePHP page on my local machine, there is one

Answer 1

I had the same problem and found out eventually that it was caused by CakePhp not accepting that I used a user with a password, even if that user was created in PHPMyAdmin. I had to use the user 'root' with no password.

I found this out after making the following change to the file /lib/Cake/Error/exceptions.php.

The original line:

protected $_messageTemplate = 'Database connection "%s" is missing, or could not be created.';

is changed into this instead:

protected $_messageTemplate = "Database connection \"%s\" is missing, or could not be created:\n    %s";

This will give you the reason for the problem so that you may change the cause properly.