So I recently ran into the following error while installing the second WordPress site on a fresh VM:
The specified password for user account ‘root’ is not valid, or failed to connect to the database server.
After following a few guides and going through the steps to reset the root password on my MySQL installation and continuing to get the same error, I finally stumbled across the solution in this blog post.
Since this issue sucked up quite a bit of my time, I figured I’d mirror it on my blog as well. I didn’t need to edit the registry key, simply installing the MySQL .NET Connector was enough to fix my issue:
Not quite sure why this is needed, but it worked for me. Hope this helps someone else out there!