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

What did it for me in the end was that I had created a table in my database, but there was no data in it.

In order for CakePHP to recognize the MySql connection, there has to be a table with data in it.