Pain point · Setup & onboarding · Causes churn
Fresh local setup rejects database connections on sign-up
2 source threads · first seen 2019-09 · last seen 2022-04
Summary
Right after setting up Appwrite locally, sign-up fails because MariaDB refuses the connecting container host. The reporter resolved it by creating a root user allowed from any host.
- Affects
- new self-hosting user
- Workaround
- Create a MariaDB root user for any host and grant privileges
Evidence
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“Fatal error: Uncaught PDOException: You have an error in your SQL syntax”
“After freshly setting up appwrite on my local and try to test the sign up functionality”