django.db.utils.operationalError: (2059,“Authentication Plugin 'caching_sha2_password'”)

Question

I am trying to connect my django project \'mysite\' to mysql. I made a user in mysql and granted it all privileges to access the project. These are the changes I made to set

Answer 1

Actually, there is no need to downgrade the MYSQL Server. Follow these two steps and it should work:

Step 1: Change MYSQL configuration to use mysql_native_password. Edit one of ini files that mysqld is using. You can see which one my using the command

mysqld --verbose --help 

and make sure this line is added -

default-authentication-plugin=mysql_native_password

Step 2: Create an new or alter the existing user. To create a new with mysql_native_password password:

CREATE USER 'username'@'ip_address' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 'password';

and to alter user

ALTER USER 'username'@'ip_address' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 'password';

By the way, this step is also pointed out by @Kol_ya