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

It's your model. Open that up and there must be the following line

public $useDbConfig = 'local';

This overwrites global config & set it back to local