# On my 11th attempt to get local to work

**URL:** https://community.kinsta.com/t/on-my-11th-attempt-to-get-local-to-work/5782
**Category:** Questions
**Created:** [December 1, 2025, 9:13pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/on-my-11th-attempt-to-get-local-to-work/5782 "2025-12-01T21:13:48Z")
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### Author: ![VladimirM](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.kinsta.com/vladimirm/32/2786_2.png) [@VladimirM](https://community.kinsta.com/u/VladimirM)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2025, 8:22pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/on-my-11th-attempt-to-get-local-to-work/5782/6 "2025-12-02T20:22:08Z")

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Hello @AbsoluteReiki 👋

Thank you for providing the main.log file.

There seems to be an issue with the database password, logs state it’s missing or incorrect. It’s not the error log message we generally see, but please attempt the following.

This is a complex solution, so you will need to follow each step exactly (use command line instead of terminal since the solution was written for Mac users, but otherwise it should work.

Let me know if the issue persists afterwards 🙏

> [@Error: Something bad happened - when trying to import site from myKinsta](https://community.kinsta.com/t/error-something-bad-happened-when-trying-to-import-site-from-mykinsta/5661/15):
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> Hello @wpcreative-jwwaving_hand As discussed in our chat, I’m posting a complete step by step instructions, if needed in the future. @Seyed My colleague and I gave you the steps in the other threads, but I wanted to tag you here as well. Note: This applies to fixing the issues with site creation that are caused by database access error (in DevKinsta main.log, it’s → ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user ‘root’@‘localhost’ (using password: YES) ). Part ONE - RESETING ‘root’ USER PASSW…

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