# Something bad happened: in create new site

**URL:** https://community.kinsta.com/t/something-bad-happened-in-create-new-site/2190
**Category:** Bug Reports
**Created:** [March 30, 2023, 5:05pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/something-bad-happened-in-create-new-site/2190 "2023-03-30T17:05:09Z")
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### Author: ![StormChild](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.kinsta.com/stormchild/32/2475_2.png) [@StormChild](https://community.kinsta.com/u/StormChild)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2023, 9:45am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/something-bad-happened-in-create-new-site/2190/17 "2023-10-05T09:45:44Z")

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I know I am a bit late to the party, but just in case someone else is having trouble with this specific problem the following might be a solution:

In my case the root password wasn’t set, so I just had to set it manually in docker. The following steps is how I fixed it.

1. Open docker desktop and navigate to “Containers”
2. Open the devkinsta\_db container
3. Navigate to the inspect tab
4. Find the `Config` section
5. Copy the root password under the config section; it should something like this:

```auto
"Config": {
		"Hostname": "a912727155a0",
		"Domainname": "",
		"User": "",
		"AttachStdin": false,
		"AttachStdout": false,
		"AttachStderr": false,
		"ExposedPorts": {
			"3306/tcp": {}
		},
		"Tty": false,
		"OpenStdin": false,
		"StdinOnce": false,
		"Env": [
			"MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD= ***kinsta root password***",
			"PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin",
			"GOSU_VERSION=1.14",
			"MARIADB_MAJOR=10.5",
			"MARIADB_VERSION=1:10.5.17+maria~ubu2004"

```

1. Navigate back to the container sections
2. Open the DB terminal  
 ![kinsta_db](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/kinsta/original/2X/1/109e9f006468a1aa885717e419ebf25a38d3ffb9.png)
3. Log into mariadb using `mysql -u root`  
If the root password wasn’t set then you should get a mysql prompt
4. Set the password to your kinsta root password: `ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password copied from the config';`  
If successful you should get the following response `Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.020 sec)`

Now you should be able to get past the error.

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