Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost'

Good day. I just did a clean install of DevKinsta and Docker on my Mac Studio running 14.6.1 (23G93). I’m trying to download my site from Kinsta but as soon as it tries to set up NGINX it gets a Something Bad happened error.

The main log says it fails on setting up my SQL due to permissions [2025-01-14 16:25:23.957] [error] [ipcMainStep] Error in operation SITE_CREATION, step database: Error: Error (1): UERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user ‘root’@‘localhost’ (using password: YES)
Please advise how to fix this. Thanks

Hi @jharries,

You can try the solution mentioned in this post, which addresses the same error message. However, if you don’t have an active working local site in your DevKinsta app, it might be easier to start fresh by deleting the DevKinsta containers, images, and volumes in Docker Desktop and then relaunching the DevKinsta app.

Let us know how it goes.