Beginner's Guide

Figure 3: Installer – License
Step 4 – Database
In the fourth step database configuration, your data base parameters will be requested (Figure 4). You can
create any number of databases in your local server environment. You have a MySQL user with the
name root. The user root is the MySQL administrator and can, therefore, do everything in your MySQL
system. The password depends on your server environment (no password is needed with XAMPP, with
MAMP the password is root).
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