cannot get past step 1

Installing my Dolibarr
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funny thing: I thought maybe installation is not completed yet. Looking at the browser address bar it showed:
http://localhost/dolibarr/

So I just tried to type in the browser address bar:
http://localhost/dolibarr/install/

And now I am back on the installation page with a bunch of additional options for install. So that resolves the fact that I can no longer get to the install page.

However, now the original error is still present.
So to summarise:

  1. I created database dolibarr
  2. I created <user> for database dolibarr
  3. When I check the users vs database vs host it confirms what I have done.

On the installation page I have the following fields filled in:

  1. database name: dolibarr
  2. driver type: mysqli (MySQL or MariaDB >=5.0.3)
  3. Database server: localhost
  4. Port: 3306
  5. Database table prefix: llx_
  6. Create database: Checked/yes
  7. Login: <user>
  8. Password: <password>
  9. Create user account or grant user account permission on the Dolibarr database: checked/yes
  10. Database server - Superuser access
  11. Login: root (greyed out)
  12. password: blank

I know that since database is already created and user already exists I should uncheck these boxes. But want to show what happens when I click Next:

Access denied for user ‘root’@‘localhost’
The database connection failed: the host or super user parameters must be wrong.

Go back and check/correct the parameters.

So I go back and change the superuser parameters:

  1. database name: dolibarr
  2. driver type: mysqli (MySQL or MariaDB >=5.0.3)
  3. Database server: localhost
  4. Port: 3306
  5. Database table prefix: llx_
  6. Create database: Checked/yes
  7. Login: <user>
  8. Password: <password>
  9. Create user account or grant user account permission on the Dolibarr database: checked/yes
  10. Database server - Superuser access
  11. Login: root (greyed out)
  12. password: <password> --> at least the password I set at a very early stage. Might not be correct.

Resulting in the same error:

Access denied for user ‘root’@‘localhost’
The database connection failed: the host or super user parameters must be wrong.

Go back and check/correct the parameters.

So possibly wrong password.
Trying to reset root password using the following instructions:


Successfully changed password.

On the installation page still the same error.

So I suppose since database and user exist I could uncheck those boxes.

  1. database name: dolibarr
  2. driver type: mysqli (MySQL or MariaDB >=5.0.3)
  3. Database server: localhost
  4. Port: 3306
  5. Database table prefix: llx_
  6. Create database: UnChecked/No
  7. Login: <user>
  8. Password: <password>
  9. Create user account or grant user account permission on the Dolibarr database: unchecked/no
  10. root options disappear.

Now I can go on to the next step.
I guess I figured this part out by myself in the end. Not sure though where the whole thing went wrong in the first place.