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

In my case it was because the database didn't exist. I expected running ./app/Console/cake schema create would create it but it did not. Creating it with create database in mysql did the trick (although I had already assigned privileges).