(2059,“Authentication Plugin 'caching_sha2_password'”) when running server connected with MYSQL database on Django

Question

I want to configure my django project in order to connect it with database in MYSQL I created with workbench 8.0,
and then I want to r

Answer 1

I think I solved it.

By following this thread

https://stackoverflow.com/a/21740692/7658051

In settings.py, at the DATABASES entry, I substituted

'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql'

with

'ENGINE': 'mysql.connector.django',

and again, as specified here,

https://django-mysql.readthedocs.io/en/latest/checks.html#django-mysql-w003-utf8mb4

i added also

'OPTIONS': {
            # Tell MySQLdb to connect with 'utf8mb4' character set
            'charset': 'utf8mb4',
        },
        # Tell Django to build the test database with the 'utf8mb4' character set
        'TEST': {
            'CHARSET': 'utf8mb4',
            'COLLATION': 'utf8mb4_unicode_ci',
        }

and then if I run

python manage.py runserver

It seems to work, even if I cannot access http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin , because I am connected to a legacy database, so I still have to inspect db and stuff I still have to learn.

As second proof that the connection is now working, when I run

connect_to_mysql_2.py

(See (2059,“Authentication Plugin 'caching_sha2_password'”) when running server connected with MYSQL database on Django)

I finally get

mysql.connector.connection_cext.CMySQLConnection object at 0x000001DFB7521550

So I really think this time the connection is on.